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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