Basket

Museum number:
2-36577
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020036577
Accession number:
Acc.1359
Description:
Twined, open-work, boat and bird design along bottom.
Donor:
Rosa Nissen
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka)
Collector:
Rosa Nissen
Collection date:
October 1960
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1960
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 6.5 inches, 5.5 meters, and height 4.5 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-36577, described as Twined, open-work, boat and bird design along bottom.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-36577, described as Twined, open-work, boat and bird design along bottom.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-36577, described as Twined, open-work, boat and bird design along bottom.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-36577, described as Twined, open-work, boat and bird design along bottom.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-36577, described as Twined, open-work, boat and bird design along bottom.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-36577, described as Twined, open-work, boat and bird design along bottom.

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