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NA1260

From: Alaska | Klukwan

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA1260
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Chilkat | Tlingit
Provenience Alaska | Klukwan
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Spruce Root | Leather
Technique Basketry | Twined
Description

Small, spruce root basket. One leather handle is attached at the rim. Decoration below the rim of dark and light bands.

Technical notes: twined, close twined, two strand; 9 warps and 15 rows per square inch. Bottom compact twine.

Height 4.5 cm
Width 10.8 cm
Depth 15 cm
Credit Line Alaska Ethnological Expedition, George Byron Gordon, 1905
Other Number LVS 109 - Field No SF

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