Object Number | NA9213 |
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 elongated "butterfly" patterns in brown and orange. Central band of elongated crosses in orange and black or green. Technical notes: twined, close twined, two-strand, in-between weave (with plain), three-strand, wrapped weft ("false embroidery"). 14 warps, 18 wefts per square inch. Bottom in between. Related to NA9212 and possibly NA9208. |
Height | 18 cm |
Width | 25.8 cm |
Depth | 24 cm |
Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1918 |
Other Number | 7 - Field No SF |
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