Berry Basket

NA1256B

From: Alaska | Klukwan

Curatorial Section: American

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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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