Basket

33-31-1A

From: United States of America | Alaska

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 33-31-1A
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
Description

Covered trinket basket. Spruce root. Twined with overlay (false embroidery) in red and black. Rattle in lid with fern-frond design. Other patters: Salmon berry and "one within another." Technical notes: twined, close twined, two-strand, three-strand, in-between weave (with plain), wrapped weft ("false embroidery").

Height 11.5 cm
Outside Diameter 15.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of Elsie Foederer, 1933

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