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Miscellaneous Eastern Woodlands and Other Baskets,

Currency:USD Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:200.00 - 300.00 USD
Miscellaneous Eastern Woodlands and Other Baskets,
lot of 11. Includes a sweetgrass coiled basket with a lid and small rings hanging from sides and one at center top, stitching makes subtle checkered pattern at fullest part of basket and on top; 6" diameter x 2.75" high; PLUS a sweetgrass coiled bowl, with open zig-zag pattern, with a birchbark panel in bottom of bowl, with a purple quilled flower in center; 7" diam. x 1.5" high; PLUS a simple, coiled tray; 7" long x 1" high; PLUS a small twined cornhusk salt or tobacco bottle; PLUS a round plaited basket with a lid and with a dark fiber checkered motif on lid and sides; 5.75" diameter x 3" high; PLUS a coiled basket tray with a braided rim; 1" high x 6" diameter; PLUS folded birchbark basket with porcupine quill decoration in a fan motif; 5.25" long x 3" high; PLUS heart-shaped sweetgrass coiled tray with zig-zag openwork on sides and birchbark center with qillwork flower in tan and yellow; 6" wide x .75" high; PLUS lidded sweetgrass basket with ash splints dyed magenta and pale green; 3.5" high x 6.5" diameter; PLUS a birchbard folded basket with a quilled diamond on each side, thread sewn rim; 4" long x 2" high; AND another nearly identical basket, but with a detached lid with a quilled diamond; 4" long x 2" high. Deaccessioned from the Western Reserve Historical Society of Cleveland, Ohio. First, very good, top is detatched; second, very good, slightly soiled; third, very good; four, very good; five, very good; six, braided rim broken and a length missing; seven, folded sides broken, bark peeling; eight, very good; nine, very good, splints somewhat faded; ten, thread stitching along rim broken in places; eleven, side split and rim has been stapled to basket.