The basket is made from woven panels of brown paper bags. On the basket's exterior and bottom interior panels are two types of native medicinal plants printed using a hand-carved linoleum block. The basket was made to evoke the feeling that it, too, belonged to Amy Green in the same way as the book. Amy would have used this basket to carry around her notes, medicinal plants, and other things she needed to care for and heal over 100 enslaved people who lived at Whitehill Plantation.