Bentwood box base

Museum number:

2-48537c

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm2102048537c

Alternate number:

A3 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.2779

Donor:

Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo

Collection place:

Northwest Coast, United States

Verbatim coll. place:

; Northwest Coast

Culture or time period:

Haida and Tlingit

Collector:

unknown

Collection date:

1971

Object type:

ethnography

Function:

4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings

Accession date:

1971

Context of use:

Storage box. "Smoked fish was put in storage chests, or woolens. This box is red cedar. Kerfed box means there is only the one joint." fide Reg Davidson and Jim Hart, October 1990. Household storage.

Department:

Native US and Canada (except California)

Comment:

Seen by Reg Davidson and Jim Hart, Oct. 1990, they say Haida. "See the knots? It's the traditional way of tying. The cross-hatching on the front is just to fill in, it does not mean it is a beaver. People are always saying everything has to have a name." Photo: 4 infra-red fotos taken by JBill McClennan July 1987 are filed in Lowie Museum of Anthropology darkroom.

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