Egg Basket with Handle
date: label: Date
content: 1992
name: label: Artist
content: Ira Blount
notes: label: Caption
content: This egg basket uses a combination of natural-colored wood splints and round reeds to create a plain weave with subtle patterning. Artist Ira Blount creates a U-shaped design around the God’s Eye design by substituting three thin round reeds for one wood splint in the weave. The wood handle is covered by a plain weave with a reed weft.
label: Caption
content: After moving to Washington, DC following World War II, Ira Blount mastered dozens of artisanal crafts. His love for crafting, learning, and community engagement would endure over the course of his long life and career.
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content: Anacostia Community Museum Collection
creditLine: label: Cite As
content: Gift of Ira Blount
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Anacostia Community Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2011.0004.0071
objectType: label: Type
content: basket
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: wood splint, reed
label: Dimensions
content: 13 1/16 × 13 3/16 × 15 3/16 in. (33.2 × 33.5 × 38.5 cm)