Container

Museum number:

2-73343

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21020073343

Alternate number:

#15, TEMP 2018.179 (temporary number, EOC reconciliation), and Temp. 459 (temporary number)

Accession number:

Acc.2747

Description:

Cylindrical container made out of birch bark, with wicker reinforced rim.

Donor:

Harold J. Murphy

Collection place:

Subarctic, North America

Culture or time period:

Northern Athabascan

Collector:

Harold J. Murphy

Materials:

Bark (plant material) and Wicker

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Containers (receptacles)

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

1971

Department:

Native US and Canada (except California)

Dimensions:

depth 8 millimeters, length 12 centimeters, height 21.5 centimeters, and width 17 centimeters

Comment:

Sticker on inside of basket reads: "acc.2747 #15 [illigble] container, Northern Athabascan Indians, Canada-Alaska".

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