Basket

NA5768

From: Alaska

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA5768
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Tlingit
Provenience Alaska
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Spruce Root | Twine
Technique Basketry | Twined
Description

Large basket with an inverted bottom. Undecorated except for 15 rows of a "raven's cradle board" pattern below the rim made using skip stitch weaving. Two handles made from twisted plant fiber are attached at the rim on opposite sides. Previously folded.

Technical notes: twined, close twined, two-strand, three-strand, diagonal/twill twining. 12 warps, 9 rows per square inch.

Height 38.2 cm
Width 53 cm
Depth 38 cm
Credit Line Wanamaker Expedtion to the Northwest Coast, Louis Shotridge, 1917
Other Number BT13 - Other Number | LS - Other Number

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