Basket Lid
32-11-13B
From: United States of America | Alaska
Curatorial Section: American
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 |
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. |
Height | 5.6 cm |
Outside Diameter | 6.5 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. George Gowen Hood, 1932 |
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