Basket
Artist
Tlingit
Location where madeSitka, Alaska, United States
MediumSpruce root, bear grass, fabric
ClassificationsContainers
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number1910.1.53
DescriptionBasket of spruce root, twined construction with orange (probably once red) designs in "false embroidery." Narrow band of parallelograms at rim, two broad bands of hourglass-shaped motifs and [see card for image] motifs, Knotted coiled start. Handle of twisted fiber is attached to two loops of soft cotton fabric sewn at the inside edge of the basket.On View
Not on viewCollections
c. 1900
Salish (NW Coast)
Wakashan or Nootka