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Object Number:32-11-4
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
Height: 12.1 cm
Outside Diameter:16 cm
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. George Gowen Hood, 1932

Description

Cylindrical. Twined weave with old woodworm design in false embroidery, straw, black and brown. Technical notes: twined, close twined, two-strand, wrapped weft ("false embroidery"); 10 warps and 16 wefts per square inch.

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