| Object Number | NA1256D |
| 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 "raven's cradle board" pattern below the rim made using skip stitch weaving. Two hide handles are attached at the rim on opposite sides and two rectangular patches of thick hide are sewn halfway between the handles. Previously folded. Technical notes: twined, close twined, two strand, three strand, diagonal/twill twining, in between weave (with plain). 15 warps and 13 rows per square inch. |
| Height | 19.5 cm |
| Width | 26 cm |
| Depth | 15.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Alaska Ethnological Expedition, George Byron Gordon, 1905 |
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