| Object Number | NA9214 |
| 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 patterns of a two thick "tree shadow" patterns with two thin "tree shadow" patterns inside of those, and two triangles in a "labret" pattern in the center. Overall, the design appears as a compound "X" shape. These "X" patterns are separated from one another by vertical, white bars. These bands are flanked above and below by a single line of white twining and a brown line of twining after that. Central band in a "leaves of fireweed" pattern in brown. Technical notes: twined, close twined, two-strand, three-strand, wrapped weft ("false embroidery"). 18 warps, 25 wefts per square inch. Bottom-compact twine. |
| Height | 14.3 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 17.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1918 |
| Other Number | B.T.8 - Other Number |
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