Basket

Museum number:

2-71329

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21020071329

Accession number:

Acc.4445

Object count:

1

Description:

Round with flat base, two leather handles with braided leather cord sewn to basket with sinew, very poor condition, broken in many areas, some repair stitching on one side. Spruce root, plain twined, leather sinew, cotton thread.

Donor:

Allen Maret

Collection place:

Northwest Coast, United States

Verbatim coll. place:

; Northwest Coast

Culture or time period:

Tlingit

Collector:

Allen Maret

Collection date:

unknown

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving

Function:

1.5 Household

Department:

Native US and Canada (except California)

Dimensions:

diameter 36 centimeters and height 33 centimeters

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