Basket Lid

97-85-5B

From: Alaska

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 97-85-5B
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Tlingit
Provenience Alaska
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Spruce Root | Dye
Description

Woman's work basket (.1) and lid (.2). Cylindrical. Rattle in disc of cover. Two-ply twining of spruce root with "lozenge" and "crossing" designs in false embroidery on side: "fern-fronds" and "crossing" on lid. Beaver skin on stretching rack. Technical notes: twined, close twined, two-strand, in-between weave (with plain), three-strand, wrapped weft ("false embroidery"); 12 warps and 16 wefts per square inch.

Height 3.5 Measurement Unit Not Provided
Outside Diameter 16 Measurement Unit Not Provided
Credit Line Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997
Other Number L-85-5B - Old Museum Number | 16148 - ANSP Number | I 855 - Gottschall Number

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