Round, open small basket with carved wooden handles made from ash splint and sweetgrass. The basket body is woven alternating wide and narrow splints. The exterior rim is bundled sweetgrass held in place with a single ash splint lash.
baskets (containers)
Basket
Attributed to Wabanaki peoples
2 3/4 (H), 4 1/2 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Ellen A. Robbins Stone
1927.2170
Kittery (York county, Maine)
Lexington (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
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