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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