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Double basket (aka telescoping basket)
Object Number 11-2-10/83820
Display Title Double basket (aka telescoping basket)
Descriptions
Object Description Double basket; (aka telescoping basket) for holding eagle down for ceremonial dances (Holmes). Inner basket tapers toward top so its telescoping cover can fit tightly into place. Dark fiber is maidenhair fern; false embroidered with stepped and barded motif in brown, dark brown elements on tan ground; fretted motif, pink and brown. Small loop on top; spruce root shot pouch.
Inventory Description Basket, woven fiber, cylindrical, dark brown pattern, one fitted lid
Classification
  • Basket
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Tlingit
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms Alaska, Southern
Materials Fiber, Maidenhair fern, Spruce root
Quantity 2
Provenance
Collector Lt. Selim E. Woodworth (ca. 1878)
Donor Dr. William McMichael Woodworth (1911)

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