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NA1259

From: Alaska | Klukwan

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA1259
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Chilkat | Tlingit
Provenience Alaska | Klukwan
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Spruce Root
Technique Basketry | Twined
Description

Bowl shaped open basket. Plaited weave at the rim. Previously folded.

Technical notes: twined, close twined, two strand, in between weave (with plain). 9 warps and 13 rows per square inch.

Height 11 cm
Width 24 cm
Depth 25.5 cm
Credit Line Alaska Ethnological Expedition, George Byron Gordon, 1905

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