Description:
Bowl-shaped raffia basket with two handles at either end and brown-colored raffia used for three concentric circles; the sides of the basket have red-colored raffia in the design of an abstract petaled flower with a brown stem; and the top rim of raffia is brown. The basket was made by a member of the Pocumtuck Basket Makers who worked with raffia, grasses, and corn husks. The attached modern paper tag reads in ink on one side: "34 Deerfield / basket / from house of M M Farley" and on reverse in pencil, "Mary Merrill Farley / sister of Louisa King Ropes / b. '66 (not married) - did / picture of cat tails, azaleas,/ pillow etc. - died about 1916 / lived with her father ? (illegible)." Louisa King Farley (b.1859), Mary Merrill Farley (b.1863), and Lucy Rice Farley (b.1870) were the daughters of Charles Benjamin Farley (b.1826) of Townsend, Massachusetts, and Maria Louisa Upton (b.1833) of Peabody, Massachusetts, who married in 1855. Louisa King Farley married Willis Henry Ropes (b.1855) in 1882. The basket, which came from the house of Mary Merrill Farley, was owned by Lucy Rice Farley. The basket is in good overall condition with some fading to the raffia color on the inside of the basket.
Label Text:
Basket Pocumtuck Basket Makers Deerfield, Massachusetts, 1890-1900 Raffia Museum Collections Fund, 2002.70.4
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