Basket

Museum number:
2-2300
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Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Birch bark. Oval shaped at rim, rectangular at base. Rim decorated with alternating bands of checkerboard weave and plain weave.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Upper Yukon River, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
; Upper Yukon
Culture or time period:
Northern Athapaskan tribes
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 8 inches and width 7.5 inches
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-2300, described as Birch bark. Oval shaped at rim, rectangular at base. Rim decorated with alternating bands of checkerboard weave and plain weave.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-2300, described as Birch bark. Oval shaped at rim, rectangular at base. Rim decorated with alternating bands of checkerboard weave and plain weave.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-2300, described as Birch bark. Oval shaped at rim, rectangular at base. Rim decorated with alternating bands of checkerboard weave and plain weave.

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