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Lot 7110

Four Vintage Basketry Items, including Sapelo Island

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20th century, the largest two are lowcountry bulrush work baskets, Sapelo Island, Georgia (largest 13 1/2 in. diameter); plus a northwestern indigenous yarn holding basket, woven in ash and sweet grass with braided handles and lid, the hole in lid to pull yarn through (7.5 x 7.5 in. without handles); and the fourth of unknown origin, possibly northwestern as well, with sinuous woven designs worked over vertical reeded grass construction (8 in. diameter).

From the Estate of the late Susan C. Frankenberg, Hillsborough, North Carolina

Good estate condition; some dust accretions to crevices and a few loose woven elements.