Basketry Covered Shell Item Number: 1989-98/5 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Automatically Generated From Material
The dye is green, red, purple, black, and blue.
Exhibit Label
7. Swamp Grass & Raffia Abalone Shell Nuu-chah-nulth
Item History
- Received from Dr. Norman Topping
What
- Name
- Basketry Covered Shell
- Identification Number
- 1989-98/5
- Type of Item
- basketry covered shell
- Material
- shell, abalone shell, swamp grass, raffia, sedge grass ? and dye
- Manufacturing Technique
- twined
- Overall
- length 19.0 cm, width 14.3 cm
Who
- Culture
- Nuu-chah-nulth
- Received from
- Dr. Norman Topping
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Gift of Norman Topping
- Motif
- Canoe | Whale | Human | Bird | Geometric
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection