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Lidded sewing basket
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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