Basket

Museum number:
2-71648
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4542
Description:
Cone shaped cedar bark basket with two “coppers” decorating the sides in light brown false embroidery.
Donor:
Burch Family
Collection place:
Northwest Coast, United States
Culture or time period:
Tsimshian
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
August 19, 1991
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
This object record was created because location data had been entered into the PHOEBE database without a corresponding object record. (J. Meehan 6/2003)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 2-71648, described as Cone shaped cedar bark basket with two “coppers” decorating the sides in light brown false embroidery.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 2-71648, described as Cone shaped cedar bark basket with two “coppers” decorating the sides in light brown false embroidery.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-71648, described as Cone shaped cedar bark basket with two “coppers” decorating the sides in light brown false embroidery.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-71648, described as Cone shaped cedar bark basket with two “coppers” decorating the sides in light brown false embroidery.

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