Basket Lid
| Object Number: | 32-11-13B |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Tlingit |
| Provenience: | United States of America Alaska |
| Culture Area: | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section: | American |
| Materials: | Spruce Root Grass Maidenhair Fern |
| Technique: | Basketry Twined |
| Height: | 5.6 cm |
| Outside Diameter: | 6.5 cm |
| Credit Line: | Gift of Mrs. George Gowen Hood, 1932 |
Description
Lid of small ginger basket for trinkets. Spruce root, twined weave with bands of false embroidery. Design: "half of the salmon berry" and, on cover, "young fronds of the fern." Technical notes: twined, close twined, two-strand, wrapped weft ("false embroidery"); 13 warps and 20 wefts per square inch. Cockle shell and straw sharks teeth designs.
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