Panbone work basket

Mediumwhale skeletal bone, metal, wood

Dimensions3 3/4 × 9 1/4 × 7 1/4 in. (9.5 × 23.5 × 18.4 cm)

Object number1948.30.289

Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum

DescriptionOval basket, with pierced design in sides, wooden bottom and whalebone handle. Decorative cutouts are in form of stars and series of oblongs holes.

One of several baskets by the same hand: 1948.30.289, 1948.30.290, 1948.30.291, Kendall Collection S-598 (2001.100.943).

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