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NA5680

From: Alaska

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA5680
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Chilkat | Tlingit
Provenience Alaska
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Spruce Root | Grass
Technique Basketry | Twined
Description

Open work basket likely used as a eulachon press. Warps are nearly straight and held together with rows of plain twining spaced roughly 2-4cm apart. Warp strands are folded back over themselves at the rim. Five rows of close twined weaving below the rim. Small, braided, plant fiber handle at base.

Technical notes: twined, open and close twined, two-strand, divided warp. 7 warps, 2 rows per square inch.

Height 36 cm
Outside Diameter 34 cm
Credit Line Wanamaker Expedtion to the Northwest Coast, Louis Shotridge, 1917
Other Number BT8 - Other Number

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