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Bottle trees

Scope note

Trees stripped of foliage and decorated by placing colored bottles at the ends of branches, and believed by their makers to have protective and healing powers; most commonly found in the southeastern United States.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000249216

Term used for

trees, bottle

Equivalent Terms used

bottle tree

Created

13yrs ago

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