Feather Case
NA9490
From: Alaska | Killisnoo
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | NA9490 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Tlingit |
Provenience | Alaska | Killisnoo |
Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Red Cedar |
Description | Basket woven feather case with plaited designs. Long, rectangular, and flat with three creases where it would have been folded. Design of intersecting, diagonal, compound lines made from a dark material over a lighter material ground. Technical notes: plaited; 5 warps, 4 wefts per square inch. Diagonal plaiting; red cedar, long cedar, B!6; arrows? |
Length | 85.2 cm |
Width | 22 cm |
Depth | 0.3 cm |
Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1923 |
Other Number | 20 - Field No SF |
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