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BASKET

Dimensions18 x 8.5 cm
Object numberHF.2021.16.468 A-B
DescriptionWoven egg shaped basket with nearly symmetrical lid. The basket is woven in a one-over-one-under checker pattern. The warp splints are stripes of sweet grass. On the closed end of one portion of the basket there is a circular pad of sweet grass that is bound together and held in place by narrow wood splints. The other basket has a ridged inside the rim of single wrapped wood splints. The rim of the baskets are single wrapped sweet grass. And there is a loose ring of single wrapped sweet grass attached to one of the halves. Both have a wood splint wrapped ring attached to the side.