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Covered woman's work or sewing basket with handle
Covered woman's work or sewing basket with handle
Object Number 2018.18.20
Display Title Covered woman's work or sewing basket with handle
Descriptions
Object Description Covered woman's work or sewing basket with carved fixed handle, plaited over a compound block with narrow gauge-cut splints, some with greenish-blue swabbing
Inventory Description Basket, square base, flared body, fitted lid, fixed bentwood handle, paited green and brown splint wood
Classification
  • Basket
Department Ethnographic
Date c. 1880
Culture
  • Penobscot?
  • Penobscot
  • Abenaki?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
Materials Splint wood , Pigment , Wood
Dimensions Overall: 23.5 × 20 × 20.5 cm (9 1/4 × 7 7/8 × 8 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2018.18.20
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 (11/29/2018)
Donor Donated by William A. Turnbaugh Ph.D. (11/29/2018)

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