Basket with lid

Museum number:
2-72523a,b
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
EC-1 (temporary number)
Accession number:
Acc.4787
Description:
Small, round, grass basket w/ lid. A) Lid; center medallion (blue-grey) surrounded by 3 alternating concentric bands (blue-grey & natural), a narrow natural band and an alternating blue-grey & natural band at rim. Interior same design but purple. B) basket; natural grass w/ two ducks and a man in a boat decorating the sides - purple. Base is cedar bark strips.
Donor:
Elizabeth Colson
Collection place:
Olympic Peninsula, Western Washington
Culture or time period:
Makah
Collector:
Elizabeth Colson
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
September 9, 2011
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
diameter 6.2 centimeters and height 3.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Basket with lid, accession number 2-72523a,b, described as Small, round, grass basket w/ lid. A) Lid; center medallion (blue-grey) surrounded by 3 alternating concentric bands (blue-grey & natural), a narrow natural band and an alternating blue-grey & natural band at rim. Interior same design but purple. B) basket; natural grass w/ two ducks and a man in a boat decorating the sides - purple. Base is cedar bark strips.

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