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Basket
Date: 1899
Location where collected:Sitka, Alaska, United States
Medium: Spruce root, bear grass
Classification: Containers
Credit Line: Museum purchase
Object number: 1910.1.54
DescriptionTwined construction of spruce root with two broad bands of design of false embroidery. Top step-like motif in red and dark brown called "Shaman's hat" or "spirit around the head" (Turnbaugh & Turnbaugh p. 154) of bear grass or maidenhair fern. Lower band of hour-glass shaped motifs in yellow and red. Knotted coiled start. Three narrow bands or checkered dark brown and natural at base, 1/3 up side, and rim. Red and yellow (aniline dyes?). Berry basket. No handle "unfinished?"
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