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Bowl-shaped, splint basket with square bottom and round rim. Carved wood rim has opposing, attached handles. Checker weave of undecorated ash splints. Probably Algonquin (American Indian).
baskets (containers)
ash (wood)
weaving
Basket
Basket
"Sent by Miss E M Stone 1908" (handwritten)
"about 1860 / by Indian" (handwritten)
Unknown
New England
4 1/4 x 10 3/4 x 11 3/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Ellen A. Robbins Stone
1927.2157
Probably Lexington (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
New England (United States) [general region]
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