| Object Number | NA9216 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Tlingit |
| Provenience | Alaska |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Spruce Root | Grass | maidenhair fern |
| Technique | Basketry | Twined |
| Description | Cylindrical basket with slightly expanding sides and an inverted bottom. Decorated with upper and lower bands of false embroidery in "butterfly" patterns in white and black. A thin, brown line frames each butterfly pattern. Technical notes: twined, close twined, two-strand, in-between weave (with plain), three-strand, wrapped weft ("false embroidery"). 16 warps, 21 rows per square inch. Bottom in between. |
| Height | 17 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 17.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1918 |
| Other Number | B.T.10 - Other Number |
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