Woven fiber basket with hat trimmings from Mae's Millinery Shop

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A woven straw basket (.1) with a hinged lid decorated on the top of the lid and the sides of the body with a large scale embroidered floral pattern in multi-colored raffia from Mae's Millinery Shop. The hinges on the basket are made from woven straw, as are straps on the front sides that fasten around metal buckle loops. There is also a straw handle on the front, which also functions as the top of the basket as the side with the lid hinges is flat. The inside of the basket is lined with a pink fabric that has a large scale print design of blue roses with mint green leaves. The basket was used by Mae Reeves to store the following hat decorating supplies, in addition to loose feathers, thread, and a sewing needle not numbered: .2) two black peacock feather tufts .3) 60 " length of red tulle .

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