Basket

NA1585

From: Alaska | Kuskokwim River

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA1585
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, rim is reinforced with woven plant fiber in light and dark checkerboard. Bent piece of wood is attached below the rim, along the entire basket.

Credit Line Alaska Ethnological Expedition, George Byron Gordon, 1907

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