Basket Lid

NA7696.2

From: Alaska

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA7696.2
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Tlingit
Provenience Alaska
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Spruce Root | Grass | maidenhair fern
Technique Basketry | Twined
Description

Lidded basket. Technical notes: twined, close twined, two-strand, in-between weave (with plain), wrapped weft ("false embroidery"). Basket: 20 warps, 11 wefts per square inch; Lid (rim); 12 warps, 17 wefts per square inch; Lid (knob): 10 warps, 20 wefts per square inch; Lip; 12 wefts per square inch. Rattle-top lid; fern frond, shark's teeth, bear tracks designs.

Height 8 cm
Outside Diameter 20.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from G. T. Emmons, 1918
Other Number A/76 - Field No SF

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