Basket Lid

NA7693.2

From: Alaska

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA7693.2
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Tlingit
Provenience Alaska
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Spruce Root | Grass
Technique Basketry | Twined
Description

Open work basket. Vessel rattle, basket with rattling lid. Technical notes: twined, close twined, two-strand, wrapped weft ("false embroidery"). basket: 12 warps, 17 wefts per square inch; Lid (knob): 12 warps, 14 wefts per square inch; Lip: 9 wefts per square inch. Inverted bottom; rattle-top lid; green strawberry

Height 8 cm
Outside Diameter 12.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from G. T. Emmons, 1918
Other Number A/57 - Field No SF

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