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NA5682

From: Alaska

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA5682
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Chilkat | Tlingit
Provenience Alaska
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Cedar Bark | Spruce Root
Technique Basketry | Twined
Description

Rectangular basket possibly used as a box lid or cover. Plaited cedar bark warps with spruce root wefts between plaiting spaced roughly 1cm apart. Dark, vertical lines are woven into the basket in repeating sets of three. Appears to be cut at the top. Base of basket is plaited.

Technical notes: twined, two-strand, in-between weave (with plain). 4 warps, 2 rows per square inch.

Height 31 cm
Width 25.5 cm
Depth 27 cm
Credit Line Wanamaker Expedtion to the Northwest Coast, Louis Shotridge, 1917
Other Number BT10 - Other Number

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