Fanner Basket

Source catalog description

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

A coiled sweetgrass basket made by Mary A. Jackson. The large, circular fanner basket has a flat bottom with sides extending just a few inches above the bottom to form a flat, shallow basket. The basket features different striations of lighter and darker colored grasses and pine needles in a uniform pattern radiating out from a center circle of darker pine needles.

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