Basket
76-9-1A
From: Alaska | Attu Island | Aleutian Islands
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 76-9-1A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Aleut |
| Provenience | Alaska | Attu Island | Aleutian Islands |
| Culture Area | Arctic Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Plant Fiber | Silk |
| Technique | Basketry |
| Description | Cylindrical finely woven basket with lid. Made of dried grasses and embroidered with silk thread in geometric designs (repeated over surface). Embroidery colors: red, green, pink, blue, la vendor, purple, orange. Concentric circles of "lattice" work on base of basket. |
| Height | 10 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 12.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Terhune, 1976 |
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