Basket

Museum number:
2-57874
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
[lost #] (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2635
Description:
Plain twined, straight-sided cylindrical basket with spruce root overlay; false embroidery designs (2 encircling bands of yellow right angle designs with red and purple chevrons between bands) in split and dyed grass stems.
Donor:
Barbara E. Busch
Collection place:
Northwest Coast, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
; Northwest Coast
Culture or time period:
Tlingit
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1970
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
diameter 20 centimeters and height 17 centimeters
Comment:
Found in Lowie Museum of Anthropology collection; # lost post-1959.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-57874, described as Plain twined, straight-sided cylindrical basket with spruce root overlay; false embroidery designs (2 encircling bands of yellow right angle designs with red and purple chevrons between bands) in split and dyed grass stems.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-57874, described as Plain twined, straight-sided cylindrical basket with spruce root overlay; false embroidery designs (2 encircling bands of yellow right angle designs with red and purple chevrons between bands) in split and dyed grass stems.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-57874, described as Plain twined, straight-sided cylindrical basket with spruce root overlay; false embroidery designs (2 encircling bands of yellow right angle designs with red and purple chevrons between bands) in split and dyed grass stems.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-57874, described as Plain twined, straight-sided cylindrical basket with spruce root overlay; false embroidery designs (2 encircling bands of yellow right angle designs with red and purple chevrons between bands) in split and dyed grass stems.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-57874, described as Plain twined, straight-sided cylindrical basket with spruce root overlay; false embroidery designs (2 encircling bands of yellow right angle designs with red and purple chevrons between bands) in split and dyed grass stems.

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