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50-50-17
From: United States of America | Alaska | Angoon Area | Channel Point
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 50-50-17 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Tlingit |
| Provenience | United States of America | Alaska | Angoon Area | Channel Point |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Spruce Root | Fabric |
| Technique | Basketry |
| Description | Brown color. 2 strips for each warp strand with wide perpendicular strip running all around basket between them. Regular twined wefts alternating with these interior strips. Open top with edge finished in 3 rows of twined weft and turned-over warp ends. Square base in large loose wicker weave with warps and wefts nearly same size. Originally cylindrical, now flattened. Remains of 2 cloth handles arranged evenly around rim. Red, black, and brown weft used in sets of 3. |
| Height | 33 cm |
| Length | 53 cm |
| Thickness | 0.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Survey of Northern Tlingit Country, Frederica de Laguna, 1950 |
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