Mat

Museum number:
2-7518
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Made of twined grass. Rectangular, small weave, 3 rows of double parallel lines of red grasses extend length of mat. On one short end of rectangle in center is attached a piece of commercial cloth with buttonhole. Cloth has pattern of parallel lines of red and blue on white ground.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Aleut
Collector:
Captain Henning
Collection date:
1898
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
burial wrappings"(?) (fide Lydia Black, 1982).
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 1.41 centimeters and width 58 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Mat, accession number 2-7518, described as Made of twined grass. Rectangular, small weave, 3 rows of double parallel lines of red grasses extend length of mat. On one short end of rectangle in center is attached a piece of commercial cloth with buttonhole. Cloth has pattern of parallel lines of red and blue on white ground.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mat, accession number 2-7518, described as Made of twined grass. Rectangular, small weave, 3 rows of double parallel lines of red grasses extend length of mat. On one short end of rectangle in center is attached a piece of commercial cloth with buttonhole. Cloth has pattern of parallel lines of red and blue on white ground.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mat, accession number 2-7518, described as Made of twined grass. Rectangular, small weave, 3 rows of double parallel lines of red grasses extend length of mat. On one short end of rectangle in center is attached a piece of commercial cloth with buttonhole. Cloth has pattern of parallel lines of red and blue on white ground.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mat, accession number 2-7518, described as Made of twined grass. Rectangular, small weave, 3 rows of double parallel lines of red grasses extend length of mat. On one short end of rectangle in center is attached a piece of commercial cloth with buttonhole. Cloth has pattern of parallel lines of red and blue on white ground.

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