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- OBJECT TYPE
- 2 quart/fruit
- DATE
- 1890
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2010.0281.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Split Splint Fruit Basket
- LOCATION
- Nova Scotia, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Wooden slats, wooden handle and rim with a metal hook attached to the handle.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 26.5 cm
- Width
- 37.0 cm
- Height
- 61.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Agriculture
- Category
- Horticulture
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Nova Scotia
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- 1890
- Canada
-
The first commercially available fruit-picking basket used in the Annapolis Valley, Quebec, and Ontario were split splint baskets manufactured by Nova Scotia's Indigenous peoples. They built on a long tradition of basket making to supply orchardists with this product. - Function
-
These baskets held fruit collected by pickers in orchards. - Technical
-
Pickers collected fruit in these baskets and then transferred them into larger bins for storage and shipment. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- None
- Missing
- Nothing missing.
- Finish
- Unfinished wood slats, handle and rim with a metal hook.
- Decoration
- None
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Unknown Manufacturer, Basket, circa 1890, Artifact no. 2010.0281, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2010.0281.001/
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