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Basket in process of manufacture
Basket in process of manufacture
Object Number 2017.8.36
Display Title Basket in process of manufacture
Descriptions
Object Description Basket in process of manufacture
Inventory Description Basket, flat base, coiled sweetgrass, flared body, handle, partially unwoven sweetgrass
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 , Palmetto
Dimensions Overall: 10.6 × 19.5 × 19 cm (4 3/16 × 7 11/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2017.8.36
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 (12/28/2017)
Donor Donated by William A. Turnbaugh Ph.D. (12/28/2017)

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