Basket

Museum number:
2-10289
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020010289
Alternate number:
8 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.511
Description:
Flexible, overlaid, twined, with flat bottom and nearly perpendicular sides; decoration of geometric designs in red, black, white, yellow, and blue dyes, the motifs being chiefly diamonds, triangles and zigzag lines in bands.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Southeast Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Southeast Alaska
Culture or time period:
Tlingit
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:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
diameter 38 centimeters and height 29 centimeters
Loans:
S1963-1964 #9: UC San Francisco Medical Center (September 3, 1963–October 11, 1963) and S2008-2009 #9a: SFO Museum (February 11, 2009–January 11, 2010)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 9 titled Basket, accession number 2-10289, described as Flexible, overlaid, twined, with flat bottom and nearly perpendicular sides; decoration of geometric designs in red, black, white, yellow, and blue dyes, the motifs being chiefly diamonds, triangles and zigzag lines in bands.Hearst Museum object 2 of 9 titled Basket, accession number 2-10289, described as Flexible, overlaid, twined, with flat bottom and nearly perpendicular sides; decoration of geometric designs in red, black, white, yellow, and blue dyes, the motifs being chiefly diamonds, triangles and zigzag lines in bands.Hearst Museum object 3 of 9 titled Basket, accession number 2-10289, described as Flexible, overlaid, twined, with flat bottom and nearly perpendicular sides; decoration of geometric designs in red, black, white, yellow, and blue dyes, the motifs being chiefly diamonds, triangles and zigzag lines in bands.Hearst Museum object 4 of 9 titled Basket, accession number 2-10289, described as Flexible, overlaid, twined, with flat bottom and nearly perpendicular sides; decoration of geometric designs in red, black, white, yellow, and blue dyes, the motifs being chiefly diamonds, triangles and zigzag lines in bands.Hearst Museum object 5 of 9 titled Basket, accession number 2-10289, described as Flexible, overlaid, twined, with flat bottom and nearly perpendicular sides; decoration of geometric designs in red, black, white, yellow, and blue dyes, the motifs being chiefly diamonds, triangles and zigzag lines in bands.Hearst Museum object 6 of 9 titled Basket, accession number 2-10289, described as Flexible, overlaid, twined, with flat bottom and nearly perpendicular sides; decoration of geometric designs in red, black, white, yellow, and blue dyes, the motifs being chiefly diamonds, triangles and zigzag lines in bands.Hearst Museum object 7 of 9 titled Basket, accession number 2-10289, described as Flexible, overlaid, twined, with flat bottom and nearly perpendicular sides; decoration of geometric designs in red, black, white, yellow, and blue dyes, the motifs being chiefly diamonds, triangles and zigzag lines in bands.Hearst Museum object 8 of 9 titled Basket, accession number 2-10289, described as Flexible, overlaid, twined, with flat bottom and nearly perpendicular sides; decoration of geometric designs in red, black, white, yellow, and blue dyes, the motifs being chiefly diamonds, triangles and zigzag lines in bands.Hearst Museum object 9 of 9 titled Basket, accession number 2-10289, described as Flexible, overlaid, twined, with flat bottom and nearly perpendicular sides; decoration of geometric designs in red, black, white, yellow, and blue dyes, the motifs being chiefly diamonds, triangles and zigzag lines in bands.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-10289, described as Flexible, overlaid, twined, with flat bottom and nearly perpendicular sides; decoration of geometric designs in red, black, white, yellow, and blue dyes, the motifs being chiefly diamonds, triangles and zigzag lines in bands.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-10289, described as Flexible, overlaid, twined, with flat bottom and nearly perpendicular sides; decoration of geometric designs in red, black, white, yellow, and blue dyes, the motifs being chiefly diamonds, triangles and zigzag lines in bands.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-10289, described as Flexible, overlaid, twined, with flat bottom and nearly perpendicular sides; decoration of geometric designs in red, black, white, yellow, and blue dyes, the motifs being chiefly diamonds, triangles and zigzag lines in bands.

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