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29-175-567

From: Canada | British Columbia

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 29-175-567
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Canada | British Columbia
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Cedar Bark
Technique Basketry
Description

Checker weave. No twinws center line. Broad strip woven next to edge. Border inside of this consists of edging of 2 black and one plain strips with 7 red wefts at ends and 9 warps on sides, so woven (by skipping 2 to 3 strands in places) that there is a red zizag line on red checker background. Zizag missing in one section on each side. Three equidistant crosswise bands of black checker background with 4 black zizags in each. Edging of one black weft to each side seperated from b band. (29 to 34 and 3 black wefts in bands) Red color apparent on one surface only.

Length 149 cm
Width 92 cm
Credit Line Exchange with George G. Heye, 1917
Other Number 6/9355 - Collector Number

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