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97-85-5A

From: Alaska

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 97-85-5A
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Tlingit
Provenience Alaska
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Spruce Root | Dye
Technique Basketry
Description

Woman's work basket (.1) and lid (.2). Cylindrical. Rattle in disc of cover. Two-ply twining of spruce root with "lozenge" and "crossing" designs in false embroidery on side: "fern-fronds" and "crossing" on lid. Beaver skin on stretching rack. Technical notes: twined, close twined, two-strand, in-between weave (with plain), three-strand, wrapped weft ("false embroidery"); 12 warps and 16 wefts per square inch.

Height 12.4 cm
Outside Diameter 16 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997
Other Number L-85-5A - Old Museum Number | 16148 - ANSP Number | I 855 - Gottschall Number

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