Basket
33-31-1A
From: United States of America | Alaska
Curatorial Section: American
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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