Artifact |  | Pack Basket
Maine State Museum, Artifact
A well-made ash splint pack basket; bottom is rectangular with crosswoven standards 1 1/8" thick; standards decrease to 1/2" near top. Sides are woven with 1/4" weavers, basket becoming rounded at corners. Basket increases in circumference, reaching maximum at 9" above base; bulges more in front; slowly contracts, becoming almost straight sided at top; opening is round. Two wood hoops placed along inside and outside perimeter at top and lashed; round, flat lid made with two layers of double standards increasing in width near outside of lid. Lid plainly woven with 1/4" weavers; wood hoop placed around top outside of lid and lashed to front to hold lid down. Leather strips riveted together to form hinges for lid; leather strip missing. Two leather buckles (broken) were riveted to bottom for form pack straps (now broken); one also at top.
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