Basketry Covered Light Bulb
Item number 1-1548 from the The Burke: University of Washington.
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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
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit
- Received from
- Mrs. Walter C. Waters
Other
- Motif
- Bands
- Credit
- Purchased from Mrs. Walter C. Waters
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection
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