Rattle

Basketry

NA9357

From: Canada | British Columbia

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA9357
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Tsimshian
Provenience Canada | British Columbia
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Spruce Root | Pigment
Description

Cylindrical, basketry rattle made from split spruce root fibers. Tapers slightly toward one end and expands into a flattened knob at the opposite end. Decorated with circumferal bands of geometric designs likely made using pigments rather than different colored weaving materials.

Length 78.74 cm
Credit Line Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1918

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