Basket

NA3336.1

From: Alaska

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA3336.1
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Tlingit
Provenience Alaska
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Spruce Root | Grass | maidenhair fern
Technique Basketry | Twined
Description

Lidded basket. Cigar-case form. Half-head of salmon berry. Technical notes: twined, close twined, two-strand, in-between weave (with plain), wrapped weft ("false embroidery"); 12 warps and 16 wefts per square inch.

Height 11.8 cm
Width 9.5 cm
Depth 3.3 cm
Credit Line Museum Purchase, 1915
Other Number G.391 - Gordon Number

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