Basket, Shaman's Drinking, From Burial Cave Item Number: E230012-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
From card: "Basket of spruce root, found in the rock cave burial place of a deceased Shaman of the Hook-ah-tar tribe of the Tlingit people of southeastern Alaska. The cave was on a rocky headland of Admiralty Island, on the Chatham Strait shore near the old village of Neltooskin. This basket was used to drink salt water from before practicing or when fasting. The two bands of ornamentation are in the designs of the butterfly and the half head of the salmonberry. Fitted with a handle of twisted spruce root. Illus. Fig. 28, p. 20 in A Guide to Weft Twining by David W. Fraser. Philadelphia: University of Penn. Press, 1989."
Item History
- Made in Neltushkin, Admiralty Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected by Lt. George T. Emmons in Neltushkin, Admiralty Island, Alaska, USA
- Received on April 29, 1904
What
- Name
- Basket, Shaman's Drinking, From Burial Cave
- Identification Number
- E230012-0
- Type of Item
- basket
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit
- Field Collector
- Lt. George T. Emmons
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Neltushkin, Admiralty Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Neltushkin, Admiralty Island, Alaska, USA
When
- Acquisition Date
- on April 29, 1904
Other
- Accession Number
- 042638