Object Number | NA7697.2 |
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), three-strand, wrapped weft ("false embroidery"); Basket: 10 warps, 17 wefts per square inch; Lid (knob): 12 warps, 17 wefts per square inch; Lip: 15 wefts per square inch. Rattle top lid; shaman's hat desigs "mountains rising in step like regularity;" basket anad lid do not match. |
Height | 10 cm |
Outside Diameter | 20 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from G. T. Emmons, 1918 |
Other Number | A/80 - Field No SF |
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