Object Number | NA5675 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Chilkat | Tlingit |
Provenience | Alaska |
Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Spruce Root | Rawhide |
Technique | Basketry | Twined |
Description | Large, cylindrical basket. Undecorated except for a heavily faded band of "raven's cradle board" pattern below the rim made using skip stitch weaving. Two handles made from twisted animal hide are attached at the rim on opposite sides. Multiple repairs have been made to the sides and bottom. Previously folded. Technical notes: twined, close twined, two-strand, in-between weave (with plain), three-strand, diagonal/twill twining. 11 warps and 14 rows per square inch. |
Height | 33.5 cm |
Width | 37 cm |
Outside Diameter | 30 cm |
Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedtion to the Northwest Coast, Louis Shotridge, 1917 |
Other Number | BT3 - Other Number |
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