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NA1386

From: Alaska | Kuskokwim River

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA1386
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Inuit
Provenience Alaska | Kuskokwim River
Culture Area Arctic Culture Area
Section American
Materials Birchbark | Spruce Root
Technique Basketry
Description

Birch bark basket with woven plant fiber basketry along the rim. Bent piece of wood below the rim. Bent stick for a handle, attached with plant fiber. Cracked near the bottom, and repaired with cotton thread.

Credit Line Alaska Ethnological Expedition, George Byron Gordon, 1907

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