/internal/media/dispatcher/1102494/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailContainer with lidabout 180019.05 x 21.59 x 40 cm (7 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 15 3/4 in.)Elm bark, split root, black dyeMuseum purchase with funds donated by a friend of the Department of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture in honor of Nina Fletcher and Bertram K. Little1994.20a-b1Oval box incised with symbols composed nearly wholly of circles and half-circles with interior parallel lines. Container sides are ringed with full concentric circles with inside black irregular squares, inside of which are white circles. Wide diagonal black lines join the circles from top to bottom. White zig-zag borders the container top and bottom between half-circles. Lid top is plain bark; the wide lip is incised with painted black ground. Half-circles alternate directions against the top and bottom edges.Basketry19.050000000040.00000000004272301