Berry Basket

NA1256C

From: Alaska | Klukwan

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA1256C
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Chilkat | Tlingit
Provenience Alaska | Klukwan
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Spruce Root | Leather
Technique Basketry | Twined
Description

Cylindrical basket with an inverted bottom. Undecorated except for a band of "raven's cradle board" pattern below the rim made using skip stitch weaving. Previously folded.

Technical notes: twined, close twined, two strand, three strand, diagonal/twill twining, in between weave (with plain). 14 warps and 14 rows per square inch.

Height 20.4 cm
Width 24.7 cm
Depth 16.3 cm
Credit Line Alaska Ethnological Expedition, George Byron Gordon, 1905

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