Basket

Museum number:
2-64903
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020064903
Accession number:
Acc.3556
Description:
Shallow, twined, spruce root, false embroidery of split grass (Elymus mollis) along outer edge and midpoint in "shaman's hat" pattern.
Donor:
Anne Deirup
Collection place:
Yakutat, Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Washington; King; Seattle
Culture or time period:
Tlingit
Collector:
Alice J. Weymouth and Hudson's Bay Company
Collection date:
1928
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Context of use:
Basket for screening berries.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
diameter 26 centimeters
Comment:
References: Emmons, G.T., "The Basketry of the Tlingit. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History", Vol. III Part II. July 1903. p. 274.
Loans:
S1980-1981 #20: Anne Deirup (October 1, 1980–October 3, 1980)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-64903, described as Shallow, twined, spruce root, false embroidery of split grass (Elymus mollis) along outer edge and midpoint in "shaman's hat" pattern.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-64903, described as Shallow, twined, spruce root, false embroidery of split grass (Elymus mollis) along outer edge and midpoint in "shaman's hat" pattern.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-64903, described as Shallow, twined, spruce root, false embroidery of split grass (Elymus mollis) along outer edge and midpoint in "shaman's hat" pattern.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-64903, described as Shallow, twined, spruce root, false embroidery of split grass (Elymus mollis) along outer edge and midpoint in "shaman's hat" pattern.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-64903, described as Shallow, twined, spruce root, false embroidery of split grass (Elymus mollis) along outer edge and midpoint in "shaman's hat" pattern.

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