Basket

Museum number:
2-10284
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020010284
Alternate number:
3 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.511
Object count:
1
Description:
Twined of fine grass stems; decorated with red, blue, purple, yellow and black worsted. Base broken loose.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Attu Island, Near Islands, Western Aleutians
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Aleutian Islands; Attu Island
Culture or time period:
Aleut and Attu
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:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
diameter 24 centimeters and height 22 centimeters
Comment:
Conservation: vacuumed, steamed and blocked October 1986. Photo: yes (color). Published: "Aleut Art", Lydia Black, Pl. XXIIg. Additional original number: 144.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-10284, described as Twined of fine grass stems; decorated with red, blue, purple, yellow and black worsted. Base broken loose.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-10284, described as Twined of fine grass stems; decorated with red, blue, purple, yellow and black worsted. Base broken loose.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-10284, described as Twined of fine grass stems; decorated with red, blue, purple, yellow and black worsted. Base broken loose.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-10284, described as Twined of fine grass stems; decorated with red, blue, purple, yellow and black worsted. Base broken loose.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-10284, described as Twined of fine grass stems; decorated with red, blue, purple, yellow and black worsted. Base broken loose.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-10284, described as Twined of fine grass stems; decorated with red, blue, purple, yellow and black worsted. Base broken loose.

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