Basket

NA9220B

From: Alaska

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA9220B
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Tlingit | Chilkat
Provenience Alaska
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Spruce Root | Leather
Technique Basketry | Twined
Description

Large basket with an inverted bottom. Undecorated except for 16 rows of a "raven's cradle board" pattern below the rim made using skip stitch weaving. Two handles made from animal hide are attached at opposite sides of the rim. Previously folded.

Technical notes: twined, close twined, two-strand, in-between weave (with plain), three-strand. 11 warps, 11 wefts per square inch. Because basket is new, design elements on side are visible on side.

Height 41.5 cm
Width 43 cm
Depth 39 cm
Credit Line Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1918
Other Number LVS 112 - Collector Number | NA9220 1/2 - Original Number | NA3324 - Other Number

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