Basket Item Number: 1932.238 from the MAA: University of Cambridge
Description
Tlingit basket in poor state of preservation but an old specimen with native dyes , as the catalogue card states. The basket is finely woven from spruce root with a false embroidery design made from grass and possibly maidenhair fern. The design has two bands of red and dark greenish black pattern which is a variation on the butterfly pattern identified by Emmons (1903:263-277). The central band is composed of stepped cream and reddish brown lines. The basket has been stitched together.; Good
Context
The original European tribal names and, where possible, current tribal names have both been given in separate GLT fields. G.T.Emmons, The Basketry of the Tlingit, Memoir of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol.3, Part 2, Leiden.; The basket is typical of those from the late 19th century, and shows the close together bands which gradually became spaced further apart in the later baskets. Many of these berry baskets were made for sale by women.
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- 1932.238
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- root, spruce wood and grass
Where
- Holding Institution
- MAA: University of Cambridge
- Made in
- Alaska, USA
When
- Acquisition Date
- during 1932
Other
- Keyword
- Basketry; Food Preparation; Food Gathering; Containers