Cylindrical twined basket with concave base. Two horizontal bands of colored (black? brown?) "Z" and "S" designs. Woven, un-pigmented diamond patterns around rim and base. Rim heavily damaged and deformed.Typed note inside vessel says: "33. Basketry Vessel. Tribe: Tlingit - Southern Alaska. Design: forward and backward "Z" pattern and upward and downward arrows in two bands around body, and a latent natural on natural ground diamond pattern; basic construction material is spruce root, with false embroidery for decoration in maidenhair fern stems and dyed grasses; all natural materials (vegetal dyes). Size: 6 1/2"h. 8" dia. Circa: 1890. Condition: poor, but capable of being repaired."

The dye is brown.