Berry Basket

NA9210

From: Alaska

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA9210
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Tlingit
Provenience Alaska
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Spruce Root | Grass | maidenhair fern
Technique Basketry | Twined
Description

Cylindrical basket with slightly expanding sides and an inverted bottom. Decorated with upper and lower bands of false embroidery in elongated "tide" or "wave" patterns in black with separated "winding" or "tying" patterns across the middle in orange.

Technical notes: twined, close twined, two-strand, in-between weave (with plain), three-strand, wrapped weft ("false embroidery"). Top: 18 warps, 23 wefts per square inch. Bottom: 18 warps, 23 wefts per square inch. Bottom in between, floated pattern.

Height 15.2 cm
Width 22 cm
Depth 19 cm
Credit Line Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1918
Other Number B.T.4 - Other Number

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