Cordage

53-54-454

From: United States of America | Alaska | Knight Island | Yakutat Bay | Old Town

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 53-54-454
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience United States of America | Alaska | Knight Island | Yakutat Bay | Old Town
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Locus Storage house, subsurface pit #15, floor of box
Period Old Town II
Section American
Materials Spruce Root (uncertain)
Description

Black, carbonized fragments, glued or vanished, partly. Two-ply, two-twist, probably spruce root. Heavy weight, loosely wound.

Outside Diameter 0.6 cm
Credit Line University Museum / Bryn Mawr College Expedition to Alaska; Frederica de Laguna, 1953
Other Number 431 - Field No SF

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