Basketry Covered Bottle Item Number: 1-1734 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
5. Cedar Bark Beargrass Covered Bottle Tsimshian, Old
Metlakatla, British Columbia
More commonly, weavers covered glass bottles of various
shapes with basketry. These could be used as vases, a
functional form.
Item History
- Received from Mrs. Asa W. Pringle
What
- Name
- Basketry Covered Bottle
- Identification Number
- 1-1734
- Type of Item
- basketry covered bottle
- Material
- cedar bark and bear grass
- Manufacturing Technique
- plain twined and false embroidered
- Overall
- height 6.5 in
Who
- Culture
- Tsimshian
- Received from
- Mrs. Asa W. Pringle
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Motif
- Bands | Butterfly
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection