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Object Number
2017.8.34
Display Title
Basket with overlapping coils at rim
Descriptions
Object Description
Basket with overlapping coils at rim
Inventory Description
Basket, coiled sweetgrass, flat base, flared and inverted body, twisted coil rim
Classification
- Basket
Department
Ethnographic
Date
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 20th century
Culture
- Gullah
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
South Carolina
Additional Geographic Terms
Low Country, near Charleston
Materials
Sweetgrass , Pine needle , Bullrush
Dimensions
Overall: 10.6 × 19.5 × 19 cm (4 3/16 × 7 11/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
2017.8.34
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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