Basket

Museum number:
2-72100
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4743
Description:
Basket, decorated and woven. Decorated with four sets of nine horizontal strips on one dyed red strip. Horizontal strips dyed purple and light grey-blue, possibly from berries. One dyed circumference strip around top of basket, reddish brown.
Donor:
Robert E. Shore
Collection place:
Bethel, Bethel Census Area, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Bethel, Alaska
Culture or time period:
Eskimo
Collector:
Robert E. Shore
Collection date:
1973-1974
Materials:
Reed
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers)
Function:
1.0 Use not specified (Utensils, Implements, and Conveyances)
Accession date:
August 24, 2004
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 13 centimeters and circumference 50.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-72100, described as Basket, decorated and woven. Decorated with four sets of nine horizontal strips on one dyed red strip. Horizontal strips dyed purple and light grey-blue, possibly from berries. One dyed circumference strip around top of basket, reddish brown.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-72100, described as Basket, decorated and woven. Decorated with four sets of nine horizontal strips on one dyed red strip. Horizontal strips dyed purple and light grey-blue, possibly from berries. One dyed circumference strip around top of basket, reddish brown.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-72100, described as Basket, decorated and woven. Decorated with four sets of nine horizontal strips on one dyed red strip. Horizontal strips dyed purple and light grey-blue, possibly from berries. One dyed circumference strip around top of basket, reddish brown.

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