Basket

Museum number:
2-57690
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3047
Description:
Round with slightly flaring sides; 2 encircling bands of right angle designs in brown grass stems in false embroidery on twined spruce root body.
Donor:
Ethel H. Porter
Collection place:
Northwest Coast, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
; Northwest Coast
Culture or time period:
Tlingit
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1914
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1974
Context of use:
Made for sale.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 14 centimeters and diameter 20.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 2-57690, described as Round with slightly flaring sides; 2 encircling bands of right angle designs in brown grass stems in false embroidery on twined spruce root body.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 2-57690, described as Round with slightly flaring sides; 2 encircling bands of right angle designs in brown grass stems in false embroidery on twined spruce root body.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-57690, described as Round with slightly flaring sides; 2 encircling bands of right angle designs in brown grass stems in false embroidery on twined spruce root body.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-57690, described as Round with slightly flaring sides; 2 encircling bands of right angle designs in brown grass stems in false embroidery on twined spruce root body.

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