Basketry Purse Item Number: 2012-100/53 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Automatically Generated From Material
The swamp grass is natural, dark blue, purple, red, green, pink, yellow, and brown.
Item History
- Received from Suttles Family Trust
What
- Name
- Basketry Purse
- Identification Number
- 2012-100/53
- Type of Item
- basketry purse
- Material
- cedar bark, swamp grass, raffia and sedge grass
- Manufacturing Technique
- plaited, twined, wrapped twined, dyed and twisted
- Overall
- length 13.0 in, height 8.5 in, width 7.5 in
Who
- Culture
- Nuu-chah-nulth
- Received from
- Suttles Family Trust
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- From the Wayne Suttles Collection, Gift of the Suttles Family Trust
- Motif
- Whale | Canoe | Human | Eagle | Lightning Serpent | Bands
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection