Object Number | NA9489 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Tlingit |
Provenience | Alaska |
Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Plant Fiber | Spruce Root |
Technique | Basketry |
Description | Cylindrical basket strainer with a close twined rim and base. The side walls are done in an open work, cross-warp weaving in an eye-hole design. Decorated around the rim with what appears to be four bands of "strawberry basket," or checked, patterns in dark fibers separated by three bands of twining. Technical notes: twined, open twined, two-strand, cross-warp, diagonal/twill twining. 5 warps, 9 wefts per square inch. Cross-warping: 5 warps, 4 wefts per square inch. |
Height | 31 cm |
Width | 24 cm |
Depth | 23 cm |
Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1923 |
Other Number | 42 - Other Number |
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