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"Half peck" wood splint basket with cover. Basket has a square base, vertical sides, round rim and is woven in a checkered pattern of narrow splints alternating with single wide splint. The cover is slightly domed and woven in a radiating checker pattern with alternating red and black standards over mostly natural standards and weavers. Native American made.
baskets (containers)
storage baskets
wood (plant material)
weaving
Basket, Food Storage
Splint
Basket, Food Storage
"2/" (Maybe burned into base of basket.)
1918.1623
Unknown
New England
9 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 (HxWxD), 13 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Ellen A. Robbins Stone
1918.1623AB
New England (United States) [general region]
Title Basket Cover Accession Number 1927.2164
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