Basket Lid
33-31-1B
From: United States of America | Alaska
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 33-31-1B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Tlingit |
| Provenience | United States of America | Alaska |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Spruce Root |
| Technique | Basketry |
| Description | Lid for trinket basket. Spruce root. Twined with overlay (false embroidery) in red and black. Rattle in lid with fern-frond design. Other patters: Salmon berry and "one within another." Technical notes: twined, close twined, two-strand, three-strand, in-between weave (with plain), wrapped weft ("false embroidery"). |
| Height | 2.54 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 16 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Elsie Foederer, 1933 |
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