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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