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Object Number 2017.8.47
Display Title Basket with three feet, curly splintwork on cover
Descriptions
Object Description "Marmite" basket with three feet, curly splintwork on cover
Inventory Description Basket, round body, dyed green splint wood incorporated, three circular legs on base, fitted lid with green curled splint wood, loop handle in center
Classification
  • Basket
Department Ethnographic
Date Early 1900's
Culture
  • Abenaki
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada? / Quebec?
North America / United States? / Maine?
Dimensions Overall: 18.5 × 18 × 19 cm (7 5/16 × 7 1/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2017.8.47
Credit Line Gift of basketry scholars and authors Sarah R. Peabody Turnbaugh '76scl (Anthropology) and William A. Turnbaugh Ph.D. '73 (Anthropology)
Provenance
Collector Sarah Peabody Turnbaugh
Collector William A. Turnbaugh Ph.D.
Donor Donated by Sarah Peabody Turnbaugh (2017)
Donor Donated by William A. Turnbaugh Ph.D. (2017)

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