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NA5683
From: Alaska | Chilkat River Region
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | NA5683 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Chilkat | Tlingit |
| Provenience | Alaska | Chilkat River Region |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Spruce Root |
| Technique | Basketry | Twined |
| Description | Open work basket likely used as a eulachon press. Warps are nearly straight and held together with rows of plain twining spaced roughly 1-2cm apart. Warp strands are folded back over themselves at the rim. Damaged in several areas around the top. Technical notes: twined, open twined, two-strand. 6 warps, 2 wefts per square inch. |
| Height | 29 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 33 cm |
| Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedtion to the Northwest Coast, Louis Shotridge, 1917 |
| Other Number | BT 11 - Other Number |
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