Basket
Item number 1885.66.18 from the MAA: University of Cambridge.
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Description
Cylinder shaped basket with false embroidery in a diamond and rectangle design in two bands near rim.; Good
Context
Inside the rim of the basket a small label has been stuck which, in Hepburn' s handwriting, says Sitka making the provenance that of Tlingit. The original European tribal names and, where possible, current tribal names have both been given in separate GLT fields.; The shape of this basket suggests it may have been part of a telescoping shaman' s basket, which had a tapering inner basket, encased in an outer cylindrical basket. An example of this sort of basket is illustrated in Bill Holm' s Box of Daylight (University of Washington Press: Seattle, 1983) page 52, figure 68. The CUMAA example could be part of the outer basket that has been broken and repaired (G.Crowther).; Exhibited: New Anthropological displays at CUMAA, wall case, object No.11, 1990-.; Collected by: Hepburn.J.E
Item History
- Made in Alaska, USA
- Received from J.E. Hepburn during 1885
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- 1885.66.18
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- root, spruce wood and grass ?
Where
- Holding Institution
- MAA: University of Cambridge
- Made in
- Alaska, USA
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit
- Received from
- J.E. Hepburn
When
- Acquisition Date
- during 1885
Other
- Keyword
- Basketry; Containers; Magic and Religion
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