BASKET
DimensionsBasket: 84.8 x 30.5 x 66.5 cm
Handle: 24.4 x 1.4 cm
Object numberHF.79.97.10 A-C
DescriptionRound mouth, square base, half height swelling. Roughly finished standards are plain plaited at base and taper near mouth. Alternate standards are hemmed at interior mouth; four are hemmed on exterior. Base is re-enforced at edges with over-woven splints. Weavers 1/4 width of standards are plain plaited. Split branch rim at mouth held by single binding. Loop handles at sides of single splint. Round lid fits over mouth. Radiating splints, approximately 1/2 width of body standards, held by narrow ring of three weavers (1/4 width of lid standards) near center and wider ring at diameter. Single binding at mouth. Alternate standards hemmed on interior.C is wooden handle fragment that has broken off
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