Object Number | 11037 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Tlingit |
Provenience | Alaska |
Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Spruce Root | Grass |
Technique | Twined |
Description | Small pebbles in cover (rattle?). Spruce root twining with false embroidery in grass. Design: fern fronds. Technical notes: twined, close twined, two-strand, wrapped weft ("false embroidery"); 8 warps and 14 wefts per square inch. Rattle top lid; beaver skin on stretching frame. |
Height | 1.7 cm |
Width | 11.5 cm |
Depth | 11 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Edward Drinker Cope, 1893 |
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