Basket

Museum number:
2-68364
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020068364
Accession number:
Acc.3940
Description:
Round with slightly flaring sides, flat bottom, 3 bands of false embroidery in a geometric design, faded colors of brown and yellow on natural ground. One side broken. Spruce root, split grass, twined.
Donor:
Betty Cummings
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Tlingit
Collector:
Betty Cummings
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 20 centimeters and diameter 22 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 2-68364, described as Round with slightly flaring sides, flat bottom, 3 bands of false embroidery in a geometric design, faded colors of brown and yellow on natural ground. One side broken. Spruce root, split grass, twined.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 2-68364, described as Round with slightly flaring sides, flat bottom, 3 bands of false embroidery in a geometric design, faded colors of brown and yellow on natural ground. One side broken. Spruce root, split grass, twined.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-68364, described as Round with slightly flaring sides, flat bottom, 3 bands of false embroidery in a geometric design, faded colors of brown and yellow on natural ground. One side broken. Spruce root, split grass, twined.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-68364, described as Round with slightly flaring sides, flat bottom, 3 bands of false embroidery in a geometric design, faded colors of brown and yellow on natural ground. One side broken. Spruce root, split grass, twined.

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