Object Number | NA9211 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Tlingit |
Provenience | Alaska |
Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Spruce Root | Grass | maidenhair fern |
Technique | Basketry | Twined |
Description | Cylindrical basket with slightly expanding sides and an inverted bottom. Decorated with upper and lower bands of false embroidery in elongated "tide" or "wave" patterns in black with separated "winding" or "tying" patterns across the middle in orange. Technical notes: twined, close twined, two-strand, in-between weave (with plain), wrapped weft ("false embroidery"). 14 warps, 17 wefts per square inch. Bottom in between, shape of flower pot, designs all floated, no apparent dye. Related to NA9213. |
Height | 17 cm |
Outside Diameter | 25 cm |
Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1918 |
Other Number | BT5 - Field No SF |
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