Berry Basket
97-85-2
From: United States of America | Alaska | Sitka
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 97-85-2 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Tlingit |
| Provenience | United States of America | Alaska | Sitka |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Spruce Root | Grass | Leather | Cloth |
| Technique | Basketry | Twined |
| Description | Small berrying basket.Two-ply twining of spruce root with "fire-weed" and "tattooing" designs in false embroidery. Evidently woven by a left-handed woman: direction of weave and slant of stitches are reversed. Technical notes: twined, close twined, two-strand, three-strand, wrapped weft ("false embroidery"); 48 warps and 20 wefts per square inch. Selvage pattern, descenders, neck strap |
| Height | 13.3 cm |
| Width | 14.3 cm |
| Depth | 10.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997 |
| Other Number | L-85-2 - Old Museum Number | 11479 - ANSP Number |
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