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Indians & Rusticators Indian Encampment Album

Band box basket, Penobscot, ca. 1850

Band box basket, Penobscot, ca. 1850

Item 80731 info
Abbe Museum

Visitors to the Wabanaki encampments on Mount Desert Island could purchase baskets in a myriad of shapes, sizes and forms. Here is a selection of late 19th and early 20th century Wabanaki baskets that Rusticators may have encountered in the sales tents of the encampments.

Hat Box Basket
Penobscot
1850s
Ash, indigo


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