Basket

Museum number:

2-7

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21020000007

Alternate number:

265 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.101

Object count:

1

Description:

Twined spruce root with false embroidery designs in red and green wool triangles on body and on band below rim.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

Alaska

Verbatim coll. place:

Alaska

Culture or time period:

Chugach, Kodiak Eskimo, and Pacific Eskimo

Collector:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection date:

unknown

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

1903

Department:

Native US and Canada (except California)

Dimensions:

28.5 centimeters and height 23 centimeters

Comment:

References: Molly Lee, "Pacific Eskimo Spruce Root Baskets" in American Indian Art magazine, Spring 1981.

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