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Object Number
2017.8.44
Display Title
Acorn-shaped yarn or string basket
Descriptions
Object Description
Acorn-shaped yarn or string basket with cover
Inventory Description
Basket, acorn shaped, tapered base, radiating splint wood plaited with thin green splint wood, fitted lid, sweet grass, open circle in center, circular handle with two rings
Classification
- Basket
Department
Ethnographic
Date
c. 1920's
Culture
- Passamaquoddy?
- Penobscot?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
Materials
Splint wood , Sweetgrass
Dimensions
Overall: 13 × 12.8 × 12.5 cm (5 1/8 × 5 1/16 × 4 15/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
2017.8.44
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
Donor
Donated by
William A. Turnbaugh Ph.D.
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