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NA1240

From: Alaska | Aleutian Islands

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number NA1240
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Aleut
Provenience Alaska | Aleutian Islands
Culture Area Arctic Culture Area
Section American
Materials Plant Fiber
Technique Basketry
Description

Cylindrical. Spaced twining on parallel warps. Plaited edge with vertical attachments. Decorated with checkerboard arrangement of lines in false embroidery.

Height 25.4 cm
Outside Diameter 26.67 cm
Credit Line Alaska Ethnological Expedition, George Byron Gordon, 1905

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