Feather Case
NA9490
From: Alaska | Killisnoo
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | NA9490 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Tlingit |
| Provenience | Alaska | Killisnoo |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Red Cedar |
| Description | Basket woven feather case with plaited designs. Long, rectangular, and flat with three creases where it would have been folded. Design of intersecting, diagonal, compound lines made from a dark material over a lighter material ground. Technical notes: plaited; 5 warps, 4 wefts per square inch. Diagonal plaiting; red cedar, long cedar, B!6; arrows? |
| Length | 85.2 cm |
| Width | 22 cm |
| Depth | 0.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1923 |
| Other Number | 20 - Field No SF |
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