| Object Number | NA9217 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Tlingit |
| Provenience | Alaska |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Spruce Root | Grass | maidenhair fern |
| Technique | Basketry | Twined |
| Description | Cylindrical basket with slightly expanding sides and an inverted bottom. Decorated with upper and lower bands of false embroidery in alternating "war club" and "raven's tail" (or cross?) patterns in white, black, and light brown. Central band of separated "winding" or "tying" patterns in white and dark brown. Technical notes: twined, close twined, two-strand, in-between weave (with plain), three-strand, wrapped weft ("false embroidery"). 34 warps, 31 wefts per square inch. Related to NA9218. |
| Height | 12.7 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 18.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1918 |
| Other Number | B.T.11 - Other Number |
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