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Designer: Mary Wright

Medium: Wood and natural straw
Date: c.1940
Country: USA
Credit: Museum purchase
The strawberry basket is originally an Algonquin Indian design. Made for new-born babies, it would have been a treasure kept through one's life. The word for heart and strawberry are almost the same in Algonquian languages.
Object Number: P91.102.1
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