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29-175-704
From: United States of America | North Carolina
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 29-175-704 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Cherokee |
| Provenience | United States of America | North Carolina |
| Culture Area | Southeast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cane (plant) | Hickory Bark (uncertain) | Dye |
| Technique | Basketry |
| Description | Shallow with Brown Dye, bottom squarish and rounded with pointed corners, top round; sides flar3; cane and hickory bark (?); twilled plaiting. All done in under 4-over-4 pattern; sides decorated by the use of cane strips dyed brown in every other horizontal row and appearing, because of technique, as diagonals. Rim: bound with hickory bark (?) strips over cane strips. Black or brown dye was usually obtained from the black walnut root. |
| Height | 9.7 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 27 cm |
| Credit Line | Exchange with George G. Heye, 1917 |
| Other Number | 1/9174 - Collector Number |
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