African Pokot Coiled Grain Basket with Leather Strap and Ultra Rich Patina Massachusetts Woman Suffrage With horizontal folds original to

With horizontal folds original to it and a bit of a shadow image on the paper

And useful too should one need to measure a milldam

11 1/2" tall x 3" wide x 1 1/4" deep

with red inside the mouth as the perfect final touch

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African Pokot Coiled Grain Basket with Leather Strap and Ultra Rich Patina Massachusetts Woman Suffrage With horizontal folds original toI find this basket a deeply beautiful thing, in very large part for its very rich patina which is what won the dealer I purchased it from too, who lived with it for some 30+ years. It is African, from the Pokot tribe of Kenya I believe, and would have been used for grain and flour. Clearly very much used, with a leather carrying strap that wore through at center from the weight of carrying things in it. (One broken end was pulled through a hole in the