Basket

Museum number:
2-30993
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2000
Description:
Cylindrical, twined spruce root, exterior false embroidery of grass stems dyed dark brown and orange: "Z" and arrow designs; interior green, brown and black bands of dyed spruce roots. Cardboard strip sewn to base.
Donor:
Della Edmeades
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Tlingit
Collector:
Brother of Della Edmeades
Collection date:
ca. 1905
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1965
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 25 centimeters and 19 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: cf. for designs: G.T. Emmons, "The Basketry of the Tlinkit".
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-30993, described as Cylindrical, twined spruce root, exterior false embroidery of grass stems dyed dark brown and orange: "Z" and arrow designs; interior green, brown and black bands of dyed spruce roots. Cardboard strip sewn to base.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-30993, described as Cylindrical, twined spruce root, exterior false embroidery of grass stems dyed dark brown and orange: "Z" and arrow designs; interior green, brown and black bands of dyed spruce roots. Cardboard strip sewn to base.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-30993, described as Cylindrical, twined spruce root, exterior false embroidery of grass stems dyed dark brown and orange: "Z" and arrow designs; interior green, brown and black bands of dyed spruce roots. Cardboard strip sewn to base.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-30993, described as Cylindrical, twined spruce root, exterior false embroidery of grass stems dyed dark brown and orange: "Z" and arrow designs; interior green, brown and black bands of dyed spruce roots. Cardboard strip sewn to base.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-30993, described as Cylindrical, twined spruce root, exterior false embroidery of grass stems dyed dark brown and orange: "Z" and arrow designs; interior green, brown and black bands of dyed spruce roots. Cardboard strip sewn to base.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-30993, described as Cylindrical, twined spruce root, exterior false embroidery of grass stems dyed dark brown and orange: "Z" and arrow designs; interior green, brown and black bands of dyed spruce roots. Cardboard strip sewn to base.

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