Component, Container
Description
Carrier handle of a dark brown, diffuse porous hardwood which, if domestic, is probably sweet gum (Liquidambar styraciflua). The handle is undrilled but has two pencil lines across each leg, 5/8" apart, the lower line 1 1/2" above bottom.
Notes
The only other sweet gum artifacts in the museum's collection are oval box and carrier bands made during the Lillian Barlow / William Perkins era at Mount Lebanon; this handle could date to that era as well.