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29-175-660
From: Washington (U. S. State)
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | 29-175-660 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Quileute |
Provenience | Washington (U. S. State) |
Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Cedar Bark | Grass |
Technique | Basketry |
Description | Rectangular; flexible. Cedar bark and marsh grass. Bottom plaited with grass-strips of equal width- with cedar bark splints placed horizontally on top of grass only narrower than it. Sides have broad horizontal cedar strips plaited with grass while brown cedar strips of smae width as grass form two bands of checkerboard work between broad strips. Also at bottom of each broad strip and below rim are two twined rows of grass. RIm bound with grass. |
Height | 17.5 cm |
Length | 28 cm |
Width | 20.5 cm |
Credit Line | Exchange with George G. Heye, 1917 |
Other Number | 5/7905 - Collector Number |
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