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Object Number
2017.8.32
Display Title
Lidded sewing basket
Descriptions
Object Description
Lidded sewing basket with two side handles
Inventory Description
Basket, oval shape, coiled sweetgrass, fitted lid, side handles
Classification
- Basket
Department
Ethnographic
Date
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 20th century
Artist
Mary Jane Manigault
Culture
- Gullah
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
South Carolina
Additional Geographic Terms
Low Country, near Charleston
Materials
Sweetgrass , Palmetto
Dimensions
Overall: 10.6 × 19.5 × 19 cm (4 3/16 × 7 11/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
2017.8.32
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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