Basket Lid

11037

From: Alaska

Curatorial Section: American

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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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