Round with flat bottom, straight sides, wide band of false embroidery in linear design, faded red and yellow and dark brown; badly broken in upper area. Spruce root, grass stems, dyed, plain twined, wicker weave. Filled voids with pulp mixture, tinted fills with acrylic paint.
Donor:
Mrs. Lewis Summers
Collection place:
Northwest Coast, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
; Northwest Coast
Culture or time period:
Tlingit
Collector:
Clement M. Summers
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Context of use:
Made for sale.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
diameter 19 centimeters and height 15.5 centimeters
Comment:
Conservation: Cleaned with light vacuuming and hand brushing, blocked with steam, filled voids with pulp mixture, tinted fills with acrylic paint. See report in accession envelope. References: Emmons, G.T. "The Basketry of the Tlingit", Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. III, July, 1903.