Basket

Museum number:

2-10290

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21020010290

Alternate number:

9 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.511

Object count:

1

Description:

Deep, overlaid, twined, flat bottom and nearly perpendicular sides. Decoration of 2 groups of 2 narrow bands, each encircling the middle and upper part of the basket, in red and straw color dyes.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

Southeast Alaska

Verbatim coll. place:

Alaska; Southeast Alaska

Culture or time period:

Tlingit

Collector:

Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection

Collection date:

1885-1908

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

1916

Department:

Native US and Canada (except California)

Dimensions:

diameter 27 centimeters and height 26 centimeters

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