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29-175-596

From: Canada | British Columbia

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 29-175-596
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Bella Bella
Provenience Canada | British Columbia
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Cedar Bark
Technique Basketry
Description

Flint. Rectangular checker work with wefts alternatingly wide and narrow. Narrow wefts blackened. (Warps narrower than narrower than the narrow wefts, occasional ones black-ened) Slight gap with no wefts between braided top rim and twined row above last checkers. Three rows of twining seperated by three regular wefts at bottom where weaving started.

Height 13.5 cm
Width 15.5 cm
Credit Line Exchange with George G. Heye, 1917
Other Number 6/9541 - Collector Number

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