Basketry Coin Purse Item Number: 1992-90/26 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
13. Cedar Bark Grass Coin Purse Makah
Another functional type of basketry used by many people
today is the twined coin purse.
Item History
- Received from Kateri Brow
What
- Name
- Basketry Coin Purse
- Identification Number
- 1992-90/26
- Type of Item
- basketry coin purse
- Material
- cedar bark, bear grass, dye, sedge grass ?, raffia and cotton cloth
- Manufacturing Technique
- printed, dyed, twined and wrapped twined
- Overall
- length 3.8 in, width 3.2 in
Who
- Culture
- Makah
- Received from
- Kateri Brow
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Gift from the family of Adeline G. Brow
- Motif
- Whale | Triangle | Lightning Serpent | Floral
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection