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Berry Basket

Object Number:NA8989
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Tlingit
Yakutat (Culture)
Provenience: Alaska
Culture Area: Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section:American
Materials:Spruce Root
Grass
maidenhair fern
Technique:Basketry
Twined
Iconography Subject:Salmon
Height: 18.6 cm
Outside Diameter:25.5 cm
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. Richard Waln Meirs, 1918
Other Number:11 - Field No SF

Description

Carrying. Technical notes: twined, close twined, three-strand, in-between weave (with plain), wrapped weft ("false embroidery"); 20 warps and 24 wefts per square inch. 5 dog salmon jumping.

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