| Object Number | NA9218 |
| 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 alternating "war club" and "raven's tail" (or cross?) patterns in white, black, and brown. Central band of separated trios of "shaman's hat" patterns in white and black. Technical notes: twined, close twined, two-strand, in-between weave (with plain), three-strand, wrapped weft ("false embroidery"). 23 warps, 30 wefts per square inch. Bottom in between, floated pattern. Related to NA9217. |
| Height | 12.2 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 18.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1918 |
| Other Number | B.T.12 - Other Number |
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