Twined Basket Item Number: E360533-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
From card: "Twined, with decorative overlay."Basket was purchased by Evans from dealer Grace Nicholson in 1919; Nicholson # 6156. See copy of Evans correspondence with Nicholson, dated June 19, 1919, filed in the Anthropology Collections Lab accession file; original of correspondence is part of the Grace Nicholson Papers and Addenda, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California; see online finding aid https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf787005cq/ .A small label, presumably from Grace Nicholson, is glued inside rim of basket: "6156 Yakutat."
Item History
- Made in Alaska, USA
- Collected in Alaska, USA
- Received from Victor J. Evans on March 20, 1931
What
- Name
- Twined Basket
- Identification Number
- E360533-0
- Type of Item
- basket
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit and Yakutat
- Received from
- Victor J. Evans
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Alaska, USA
When
- Acquisition Date
- on March 20, 1931
Other
- Accession Number
- 113605