Basket

NA9219

From: Alaska

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA9219
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Tlingit
Provenience Alaska
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Spruce Root | Grass
Technique Basketry | Twined
Description

Cylindrical basket with slightly expanding sides and an inverted bottom. The basket is separated into three sections of open work, cross-warp weaving in an eye-hole design. Two close twined bands are woven between the open work and feature false embroidery "leaves of fireweed" patterns pointing in opposite directions.

Technical notes: twined, open and close twined, cross-warp, two-strand, three-strand, wrapped weft ("false embroidery"). 15 warps, 16 wefts per square inch. Bottom in between.

Height 9.37 cm
Width 12.38 cm
Depth 12.86 cm
Credit Line Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1918
Other Number B.T.13 - Other Number

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