Basket Item Number: E168160-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "TWINED OPENWORK. CYLINDRICAL FORM PROBABLY OF SPRUCE ROOT ? *ORIGINAL TAG SAYS: "MOUTH OF SHEEP CREEK, BELOW Z (?) UNO" ** ORIGINAL TAG SAYS: "COLLECTED BY W. C. HODGKIN" ABOUT 1975 FOUND QUITE BROKEN AROUND BOTTOM WHICH WAS REPAIRED IN ANTH. CONS. LAB, AS WELL AS GENERAL TREATMENT TO PRESERVE THE ELASTICITY."Identified as soapberry spoon storage bag by Teri Rofkar, Tlingit basket maker, 3-2003Similar to E168157 (see remarks for that object), this Taku Tlingit object may originate with the Taku Tlingit of the Upper Taku River area of British Columbia.
Item History
- Made in Alaska, USA ? or British Columbia, Canada ?
- Collected by Herbert G. Ogden in Alaska, USA ? or British Columbia, Canada ? during 1893
- Received from Bureau Of American Ethnology on November 14, 1893
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- E168160-0
- Type of Item
- basket
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit and Taku
- Field Collector
- Herbert G. Ogden
- Received from
- Bureau Of American Ethnology
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Alaska, USA ? or British Columbia, Canada ?
- Collected in
- Alaska, USA ? or British Columbia, Canada ?
When
- Collection Date
- during 1893
- Acquisition Date
- on November 14, 1893
Other
- Accession Number
- 027509