Historic New England

Sewing Basket with Contents

Pill-shaped sewing basket with symmetrical base and lid, each with scallop-shaped sides. Wicker weave with darker dyed reeds forming decorative element on lid. The interior of the basket is padded with wool batting and lined with cream colored linen. The basket contains: two beaded and cardboard cr...

Date: 1825-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: wicker, reed (grass, material)

GUSN: 67242

Accession Number: 1925.774AB

Gathering basket

Two quart ash splint basket with carved handle. Square bottom, reinforced by canvas, vertical sides, and round rim. Wicker weave.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: ash (wood), weaving, carving (processes)

GUSN: 67243

Accession Number: 1927.2196

Basket Cover

Wood splint basket cover with paper lining stamped with pink diamond pattern.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), wood (plant material), weaving

GUSN: 67244

Accession Number: 1927.2164

Basket

This rectangular basket is made from ash splint. The basket base is checkerweave rising to pink-swabbed standards. The weavers are swabbed blue. The splints are hand cut with a knife rather than a splint gauge. Rims are splint, held in place with a single ash splint lashing.

Date: 1800-1900

Maker: Possibly Wabanaki peoples (Basket maker)

Material: ash (wood), weaving, carving (processes), painting (coating)

GUSN: 67245

Accession Number: 1927.2179

Gathering basket

Circular basket with crosshatch weave, leather woven edges and canted sides. Flat squared bail handle.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: hickory (wood), splints (lighting devices)

GUSN: 67246

Accession Number: 1927.2197

Storage basket

Checker weave storage basket with stamped decoration. Interior lined with paper. Round, domed cover. Round base and straight sides in alternating wide and narrow weavers.

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: ash (wood), weaving, stamp-decorated

GUSN: 67247

Accession Number: 1927.2161

Basket with Cover

Small ash splint storage basket (a) with square base, vertical sides, circular opening and snug fitting cover (b). Checker and wicker weave. Circular cover with radial weave. Alternating standard splints are swabbed yellow. Wide weavers swabbed green and red. Narrow weavers swabbed blue. Native Amer...

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: ash (wood)

GUSN: 67249

Accession Number: 1918.872AB

Storage Basket with Cover

"Half peck" wood splint basket with cover. Basket has a square base, vertical sides, round rim and is woven in a checkered pattern of narrow splints alternating with single wide splint. The cover is slightly domed and woven in a radiating checker pattern with alternating red and black standards over...

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), weaving

GUSN: 67250

Accession Number: 1918.1623AB

Basket

Shallow ovoid form with woven bottom, reeded sides, and open diamond work lip. Arch shaped wicker covered handle.

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: wicker, weaving

GUSN: 67251

Accession Number: 1942.373.1

Basket

Round ash splint basket [a] with balloon waist, single ash-wrapped handle and cover [b]. Made from ash splints woven in a wicker-weave pattern. Indigo weft bands decorate the mid shoulder and lower sections of the body and the cover. The round base exhibits a deep interior "kick." The basket rim is...

Date: 1850-1920

Maker: Attributed to Wabanaki peoples (Maker)

Material: ash (wood)

GUSN: 67254

Accession Number: 1927.2200

Basket

Rectangular tray made from ash splint and sweetgrass. The base is ash splint in a checker or plain weave. The sides are braided sweetgrass weavers and ash splint standards. The rim is made from bunched sweetgrass on the exterior and a splint interior, held in place by a single lash of ash splint.

Date: 1850-1920

Maker: Wabanaki peoples (Maker)

Material: ash (wood), sweetgrass (material), weaving

GUSN: 67255

Accession Number: 1927.2167

Basket

Round, open small basket with carved wooden handles made from ash splint and sweetgrass. The basket body is woven alternating wide and narrow splints. The exterior rim is bundled sweetgrass held in place with a single ash splint lash.

Date: 1850-1927

Maker: Attributed to Wabanaki peoples

GUSN: 67256

Accession Number: 1927.2170

Trinket basket

Circular trinket basket with inset lid. Made of delicate splints and grass. Protruding spiral twill weave on sides and lid. Probably Algonquin Indian.

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: splints (lighting devices), reed (grass, material)

GUSN: 67257

Accession Number: 1927.2183AB

Pedestal

Wood and wicker table base or pedestal. Wooden oval base, wicker with open circular patterning.

Date: 1870-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: wicker, wood and wood products

GUSN: 67258

Accession Number: 1927.2184

Basket

Rectangular crosshatch weave. 2 small handles at each end. Possibly Algonquin Indian made.

Date: 1830-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: ash (wood), weaving, stamp-decorated

GUSN: 67259

Accession Number: 1927.2188

Berry basket

Six-penny strawberry basket. Square base, circular canted sides and checker work weave.

Date: 1825-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: hickory (wood), splints (lighting devices)

GUSN: 67260

Accession Number: 1927.2176

Berry basket

Six penny strawberry basket. Square base with circular rim, checker work weave and broken splint handle.

Date: 1825-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: hickory (wood), splints (lighting devices)

GUSN: 67261

Accession Number: 1927.2175

Gathering basket

Square bottom basket with rounded canted sides. Crosshatch weave. Two wood flat squared handles.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: hickory (wood), splints (lighting devices)

GUSN: 67262

Accession Number: 1927.2140

Gathering basket

Rectangular basket with straight sides. Crosshatch splint weave. Handle broken off.

Date: 1825-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: hickory (wood), splints (lighting devices)

GUSN: 67263

Accession Number: 1927.2144

Gathering basket

Half-bushel size basket with crosshatch weave on circular body with canted sides. Solid strap handles.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: hickory (wood), splints (lighting devices)

GUSN: 67264

Accession Number: 1927.2145

Berry basket

Small basket with circular form and checkerboard weave.

Date: 1825-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: hickory (wood), splints (lighting devices)

GUSN: 67265

Accession Number: 1927.2177

Berry basket

Small square basket with tall, vertical sides and round rim. Tightly woven ash splints in alternating checker and wicker weave. Weavers stamped red and black geometric flowers. Native American made.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: ash (wood), weaving, stamping (marking)

GUSN: 67266

Accession Number: 1927.2189

Gathering Basket

Small, ash splint gathering basket with carved handle. Square bottom, vertical sides, and round rim. Ash splint wicker weave with a checker weave base. The inner rim is carved wood with an outer, splint rim held in place with a single ash splint lash.

Date: 1840-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: ash (wood), weaving, carving (processes)

GUSN: 67267

Accession Number: 1927.2201

Basket

Shallow, square hickery splint basket. Carved wood rim. Undecorated, checker weave.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: hickory (wood), weaving

GUSN: 67268

Accession Number: 1927.2182

Fruit basket

Reed fruit basket with scalloped, open weave sides that flare out from round, radiating weave base.

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: wicker, reed (grass, material)

GUSN: 67269

Accession Number: 1927.2162

Toothbrush Holder

Toothbrush holder with a burgundy transfer-printed design on a cream colored ground.

Date: 1879

Maker: William Brownfield & Sons (Manufacturer)

Material: earthenware, molding (forming), transfer printing

GUSN: 66866

Accession Number: 1966.432.7

Fragment Curtain Rod

Fragmentments of brass curtain rod, various shapes and elements

Date: 1900-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy)

GUSN: 66867

Accession Number: 1966.2198

Sketch Book

Cream colored colth cover, bound, self-tie

Date: 1829-1896

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), webbing (material), paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 66868

Accession Number: 1966.2236

Chair

Armchair. Poplar posts; birch rockers; all other work ash. Ball-turned topmost back rail. Attenuated spindles at back and baluster-turned stiles. Tops of finials and ball-turned handholds above front posts missing. Two rows of stretchers at front and sides; one stretcher at back. Shaped planke...

Date: 1650-1690

Maker: unknown

Material: ash (wood), birch (wood), poplar (wood)

GUSN: 66869

Accession Number: 1961.104

Side Chair

Crooked-back chair with molded stiles and carved crest. Cane back. Cabriole legs with volutes. Cyma-curved skirt and turned stretchers. Evidence of an upholstered seat.

Date: 1725-1735

Maker: unknown

Material: beech (wood), carving (processes)

GUSN: 66870

Accession Number: 1976.168.1

Chair

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 66871

Accession Number: 1932.2152A

Chair

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 66872

Accession Number: 1932.2152B

Pair of eyeglasses with folding rims in leather case.

Maker: unknown

Material: leather

GUSN: 66885

Accession Number: 1988.41.1-.2

Replica Soap

Reproduction of a 19th century bar of soap in the SPNEA collection (1917. 909).

Maker: Hyder, Daryl (Maker)

Material: paper (fiber product), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 66886

Accession Number: 1988.76

Flag

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: textiles

GUSN: 66887

Accession Number: 1986.1191

Signature Slug

Slug for W. Sumner Appleton's signature.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 66888

Accession Number: 1988.58

Carved Bone Thing

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 66889

Accession Number: 1987.186

Ball-in-cup Toy

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 66891

Accession Number: 1922.623

Paper Knife

Japanned paper knife. Oblong shape with rounded edges. Painted scene of two pagodas and two men with leafy trees in gold on a black ground. Reverse is undecorated black. Proabably japanned over papier mache core.

Date: 1850-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: japanning, papier mâché

GUSN: 66892

Accession Number: 1986.1192

Wallpaper on plaster

Wallpaper fragment on horsehair plaster. Blue stripe of stylized vine framed with zig-zag and stylized flowers, alternating with stripe of allover cross or four-pointed star. Machine printed in blue on yellow ochre ground.

Maker: unknown

Material: wallpapers, fibrous plaster, horsehair

GUSN: 66894

Accession Number: 1972.116