Basket Item Number: 2.5E513 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
Cat; Tlinget basket, twined, tan colored with two bands of blanket border design in maiden hair fern. Lower third of basket has a diamond self-pattern. The basket has a flaring cylinder shape. There is a break in the rim of the basket.
Item History
- Received from Mrs. Walter C. Waters
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- 2.5E513
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- spruce root, grass and maidenhair fern
- Manufacturing Technique
- plain twined, triple twined and false embroidered
- Overall
- height 31.2 cm, diameter 34.5 cm
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit
- Received from
- Mrs. Walter C. Waters
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Purchased from Mrs. Walter C. Waters
- Motif
- Blanket | Geometric
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection