Basket
32-11-13A
From: United States of America | Alaska
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 32-11-13A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Tlingit |
| Provenience | United States of America | Alaska |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Spruce Root | Grass | maidenhair fern |
| Technique | Basketry | Twined |
| Description | Small ginger basket for trinkets. Spruce root, twined weave with bands of false embroidery. Design: "half of the salmon berry" and, on cover, "young fronds of the fern." Technical notes: twined, close twined, two-strand, wrapped weft ("false embroidery"); 13 warps and 20 wefts per square inch. Cockle shell and straw sharks teeth designs. |
| Height | 5.7 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 6 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. George Gowen Hood, 1932 |
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