| Object Number | NA1261 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Chilkat | Tlingit |
| Provenience | Alaska | Klukwan |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Spruce Root | Cloth | Grass | Sinew |
| Technique | Basketry | Twined |
| Description | Cylindrical basket with an inverted bottom. Decorated with two bands of false embroidery in diagonal parallelograms, likely a variation of the "leaves of fireweed" pattern in light brown. Two cloth handles are attached at the rim on opposite sides. Previously folded. Technical notes: twined, close twined, two strand. 13 warps and 15 rows per square inch. Cut top edge. |
| Height | 19.8 cm |
| Width | 24 cm |
| Depth | 17 cm |
| Credit Line | Alaska Ethnological Expedition, George Byron Gordon, 1905 |
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