Object Number | NA1256B |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Chilkat | Tlingit |
Provenience | Alaska | Klukwan |
Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Spruce Root | Leather | Cloth |
Technique | Basketry | Twined |
Description | Cylindrical, spruce root basket with an inverted bottom. Two leather handles attached at the rim. Undecorated except for a band of "raven's cradle board" pattern below the rim made using skip stitch weaving. Previously folded. Technical notes: twined, two strand, three strand, diagonal/twill twining, in between weave. 14 warps and 14 rows per square inch. |
Height | 25 cm |
Width | 27 cm |
Depth | 29 cm |
Credit Line | Alaska Ethnological Expedition, George Byron Gordon, 1905 |
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