Nested basket
- Museum number:
- 3-24448g
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm2103024448g
- Accession number:
- Acc.2736
- Description:
- Nesting basket; one of a set of fifteen nested horsehair and wicker baskets. Woody fiber and horsehair in wickerweave. Tourist novelty.
- Donor:
- Merritt Gibson Barton
- Collection place:
- Mexico
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Mexico, unspecified.
- Collector:
- Florence Belle Barton
- Collection date:
- ca. 1910-1920
- Materials:
- Plant material
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Nesting baskets
- Function:
- 5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
- Accession date:
- 1971
- Department:
- Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area