Basketry Covered Light Bulb Item Number: 1-1548 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
4. Spruce Root Covered Light Bulb Tlingit
Many different types of objects were covered with basketry
and sold to tourists. Here are several unusual basketry
covered items: an abalone shell, a sea urchin shell, and a
light bulb that would never have fit into
a socket!
Automatically Generated From Material
The grass is red and yellow. The seed bead is blue and white.
Item History
- Received from Mrs. Walter C. Waters
What
- Name
- Basketry Covered Light Bulb
- Identification Number
- 1-1548
- Type of Item
- basketry covered light bulb
- Material
- spruce root, grass, seed bead and light bulb
- Manufacturing Technique
- plain twined, false embroidered, dyed and strung
- Overall
- length 4.2 in, diameter 2.2 in
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit
- Received from
- Mrs. Walter C. Waters
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Motif
- Bands
- Credit
- Purchased from Mrs. Walter C. Waters
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection