With bail handle. Twining with remnant of red and blue wool yarn woven in at top.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Aleut
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Wool (textile) and Yarn
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers)
Function:
1.4 Transportation and 5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Miniature or model of fish transport basket.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 4.5 centimeters and 5 centimeters
Comment:
This spec. was returned to LMA by Suzanne Griset of U. C. Davis in September 1985. It had been in Davis Anthro. collections for at least 25 years. No data available on how specimen got there.
Loans:
S2008-2009 #9a: SFO Museum (February 11, 2009–January 11, 2010)