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42-29-6
From: United States of America | Alaska
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 42-29-6 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Tlingit |
| Provenience | United States of America | Alaska |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Date Made | -1910 |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Spruce Root | Grass | maidenhair fern |
| Technique | Basketry | Twined |
| Description | Sieve? Shallow bowl. Spruce root; two-strand twining with two bands of crossed warp twined weave. Design: blanket border in three bands of false embroidery of fern stems. Technical notes: twined, open and close twined, cross-warp, two-strand, wrapped weft ("false embroidery"); 13 warps and 20 wefts per square inch. Inverted bottom. |
| Height | 11.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 33 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. Franklin Miles Day, 1942 |
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