Gift of Mrs. Frederick G. Bleeg.

Museum Purchase: Helen Thurston Ayer Fund.

Gift of Miss Henrietta E. Failing.

Small sea grass(?) basket lined with faded blue coth; with lid that is padded and lined with faded blue cloth. Small loop of braided grass on lid slips over ring on basket. Decoration consists of rings of dark and light grass alternating up the slightly flared sides from the circular base.

Open, rectangular basket with a cedar foundation (checker work base; side strips). Sea-grass twined over sides. Side rows first, second and third from the bottom dyed green; rows first second and third from the rim dyed blue; centre five rows dyed blue.

Twined grass basket with lid. Decorated with ambiguous figures, perhaps flowers, in grid pattern along the sides and lid. Divided warp twined weave (also called hemstitching) with wool yarn overlay. Colours: pale blue, green, orange, red, brown.

Woven basket with a circular basket and straight, vertical sides. Open twined weaving with weft strand far apart but with wrapped warp border at top and wool overlay embroidery. Hourglass design motif in red with blue-green ends and blue-green with red ends.

Circular utility basket with braided rope at top. Two strand twined openwork weave with warp strands alternating double bound: wool yarn bound round weft strands at top. Four horizontal bands in blue with red dotted lines in interior resulting from wool wound around weft strands.

Cylindrical light brown woven basket with several black weft fibres used at random intervals.

Beehive-shaped coil basket with flat bottom and a flat, fitted lid; lid is tied to the basket on one side with a piece of string.