Basket

NA5675

From: Alaska

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA5675
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Chilkat | Tlingit
Provenience Alaska
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Spruce Root | Rawhide
Technique Basketry | Twined
Description

Large, cylindrical basket. Undecorated except for a heavily faded band of "raven's cradle board" pattern below the rim made using skip stitch weaving. Two handles made from twisted animal hide are attached at the rim on opposite sides. Multiple repairs have been made to the sides and bottom. Previously folded.

Technical notes: twined, close twined, two-strand, in-between weave (with plain), three-strand, diagonal/twill twining. 11 warps and 14 rows per square inch.

Height 33.5 cm
Width 37 cm
Outside Diameter 30 cm
Credit Line Wanamaker Expedtion to the Northwest Coast, Louis Shotridge, 1917
Other Number BT3 - Other Number

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