Basket
30-11-16A
From: United States of America | Alaska
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | 30-11-16A |
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 | Twined |
Description | Cylindrical basket with rattle lid (30-11-16B). Made of split roots of the spruce tree. A repeating, vertical, "tree shadow" (or snail track) pattern is woven into the basketry using skip stitch weaving. Decorated with upper and lower bands of straw false embroidery in a "leaves of fireweed" pattern in black. Central band of "blanket border" pattern in brown flanked above and below by a line of "strawberry basket," or checked, pattern in green. Technical notes: twined, close twined, two-strand, in-between weave (with plain), diagonal/twill twining, three-strand, wrapped weft ("false embroidery"). Body: 18 warps, 25 wefts per square inch. Bottom compact twine. |
Height | 10 cm |
Outside Diameter | 13 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Louis Shotridge, 1930 |
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