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NA5683

From: Alaska | Chilkat River Region

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA5683
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Chilkat | Tlingit
Provenience Alaska | Chilkat River Region
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Spruce Root
Technique Basketry | Twined
Description

Open work basket likely used as a eulachon press. Warps are nearly straight and held together with rows of plain twining spaced roughly 1-2cm apart. Warp strands are folded back over themselves at the rim. Damaged in several areas around the top.

Technical notes: twined, open twined, two-strand. 6 warps, 2 wefts per square inch.

Height 29 cm
Outside Diameter 33 cm
Credit Line Wanamaker Expedtion to the Northwest Coast, Louis Shotridge, 1917
Other Number BT 11 - Other Number

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