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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
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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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