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Cylindrical coiled basket with 3 tiered stepped lid. Constructed of dark brown bulrush fibers (body, bottom tier of lid) and lighter sweetgrass (lid, bottom) and pineneedles (top of lid and bottom), coils sewn together with light colored palm strips.
Stepped Lid Basket
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista

Stepped Lid Basket

Artist Barbara Manigault (American, born 1958)
Date2012
Place of originMount Pleasant, South Carolina, United States
MediumCoiled basket; sweetgrass, bulrush, pineneedle, palm fiber
Dimensions13 x 9 x 10 1/8 in. (33 x 22.9 x 25.7 cm)
ClassificationsBasketry
Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by the David A. Cofrin Acquisition Endowment
Object number2013.4
Collections
Visual DescriptionCylindrical coiled basket with 3 tiered stepped lid. Constructed of dark brown bulrush fibers (body, bottom tier of lid) and lighter sweetgrass (lid, bottom) and pineneedles (top of lid and bottom), coils sewn together with light colored palm strips.
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