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Artist: Tlingit (S. Alaska)
Date: Purchased 1966
Medium: Spruce root, bear grass, maidenhair fern
Classification: Containers
Credit Line: Gift of Sanborn Partridge
Object number: 1991.83.3
DescriptionTwined construction, knotted-coiled start with two openwork bands of open twined crossed warp weaving called "eyeholes," and three solid bands with geometric patterns. False embroidered in black and orange. Deep cup with flared rim. Braided selvage rim.
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