Basket

Museum number:
2-58507
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020058507
Accession number:
Acc.3153
Description:
Twined; 2 encircling bands, each of alternating brown and yellow zigzag design; flat bottom, straight sides, top badly damaged, designs in false embroidery. Basket "was old at that time.
Donor:
Eleanor L. Waldorf
Collection place:
Haines, Haines Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Haines
Culture or time period:
Tlingit
Collector:
Eleanor L. Waldorf
Collection date:
1905
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Context of use:
Household basket.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 24 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-58507, described as Twined; 2 encircling bands, each of alternating brown and yellow zigzag design; flat bottom, straight sides, top badly damaged, designs in false embroidery. Basket "was old at that time.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-58507, described as Twined; 2 encircling bands, each of alternating brown and yellow zigzag design; flat bottom, straight sides, top badly damaged, designs in false embroidery. Basket "was old at that time.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-58507, described as Twined; 2 encircling bands, each of alternating brown and yellow zigzag design; flat bottom, straight sides, top badly damaged, designs in false embroidery. Basket "was old at that time.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-58507, described as Twined; 2 encircling bands, each of alternating brown and yellow zigzag design; flat bottom, straight sides, top badly damaged, designs in false embroidery. Basket "was old at that time.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-58507, described as Twined; 2 encircling bands, each of alternating brown and yellow zigzag design; flat bottom, straight sides, top badly damaged, designs in false embroidery. Basket "was old at that time.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-58507, described as Twined; 2 encircling bands, each of alternating brown and yellow zigzag design; flat bottom, straight sides, top badly damaged, designs in false embroidery. Basket "was old at that time.

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