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50-50-16
From: United States of America | Alaska | Angoon Area | Ketintcian | Killisnoo Harbor | Admiralty Island
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 50-50-16 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Tlingit |
| Provenience | United States of America | Alaska | Angoon Area | Ketintcian | Killisnoo Harbor | Admiralty Island |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Locus | Shiskin Smokehouse |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Spruce Root |
| Technique | Basketry |
| Description | Spruce roots, twined. Emmons' weave type 2. Open top, circular base. Originally cylindrical, now flattened. Larger strands used on base. 2 small double handles of 2-ply cord, knotted on inside. Brown, many holes. Edge of plain twining using together 1 thick, 1 thin weft strand. Rim seems a crude Emmons' border type lo. 1 handle nearly gone. Basal circle has raised edge, longer weave |
| Height | 35 cm |
| Length | 59.5 cm |
| Thickness | 0.4 cm |
| Credit Line | Survey of Northern Tlingit Country, Frederica de Laguna, 1950 |
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