Tea kettle with lid; twined basketry with overlay designs. (a) Tea kettle: encircling bands of black and red parallelograms top, bottom, and on spout. (b) Lid: encircling bands of red and black parallelograms; attachment at top broken.
Donor:
Mrs. Bernice Wetterwik
Collection place:
Northwest Coast, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
; Northwest Coast
Culture or time period:
Tlingit
Collector:
Louis Levy
Collection date:
1879-1947
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Treasure baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Context of use:
Trinket.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
(a)— height 9 centimeters and (b)— diameter 7.5 centimeters