Basketry fragments

Museum number:
2-66184a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210266184a@2cb
Alternate number:
2-19516 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.882
Description:
Diagonal twining of Elymus mollis (sea rye), closely twined.
Donor:
United States National Museum
Collection place:
Kagamil Island, Islands of the Four Mountains, Aleutians West Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Aleutian Islands; Kagamil Island
Collector:
Aleš Hrdlička
Collection date:
1939
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Basketry (object genre), Fragments (object portions), and Twined weaving
Production date:
before 1800
Accession date:
1946
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
b)— length 8 centimeters, a)— length 13.5 centimeters, b)— width 5 centimeters, and a)— width 7 centimeters
Comment:
Published: Black, Lydia T. 1982 "Aleut Art". Anchorage: Aleutian/Pribilof Islands Assoc., Inc., pp. 164-169. References: A. Hrdlicka 1945 The Aleutian and Commander Islands and Their Inhabitants. Philadelphia: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basketry fragments, accession number 2-66184a,b, described as Diagonal twining of Elymus mollis (sea rye), closely twined.

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