Covered basket, of flattened round form. Of fine, tightly woven straw with black and reddish Native American design woven into the sides and small black design on the rim on the flat fitted cover.
baskets (containers)
straw (plant material)
weaving
Native American
Basket
Basket
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.1254A,B
Unknown
3 3/8 (H), 8 3/4 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1254AB
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