Mat
29-48-398
From: Canada | British Columbia
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 29-48-398 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Canada | British Columbia |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cedar Bark |
| Technique | Basketry |
| Description | Woven. Design in border formed of bark, black and green. In these mats, some of the bark is left its natural colour which is a deep brown; some is bleached a lighter brown; some is soaked in water until it is a greenish black. The green is probably not cedar but alder or willow soaked in "dead" water (that of a lake, for instance) |
| Length | 198.1 cm |
| Width | 61 cm |
| Credit Line | Exchange with George G. Heye, 1919 |
| Other Number | 6/9309 - Collector Number |
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