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NA1797

From: Alaska

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA1797
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

Open basket, bowl like. Technical notes: twined, close twined, two-strand, wrapped weft ("false embroidery"); 11 warps and 17 wefts per square inch. Strawberry/ cockleshell is faded.

Height 14.2 cm
Outside Diameter 16.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Edward Drinker Cope, 1893
Other Number 11024 - Original Number

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