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Small tubular carrying basket
Small tubular carrying basket
Object Number 69-30-10/1721A
Display Title Small tubular carrying basket
Descriptions
Object Description Basket with 17 paddle-shaped instruments--"spoons" Used only for soapberries. Small tubular carrying basket with open twining. (Shaman's soapberry spoons in spruce root basket with open twining. Seventeen spoons: one with abstract negative design (1721.1), another with bird's face and tongue (1721.2). Used in feasts to eat soapberry froth.)
Inventory Description Basket, woven grass and bark, tubular, twisted fiber cord, broken
Classification
  • Basket
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Tlingit
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Materials Grass, Bark
Dimensions Overall: 49 x 11 x 8.6 cm (19 5/16 x 4 5/16 x 3 3/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 69-30-10/1721A
Provenance
Collector Capt. Edward Gustavus Fast (1867-1868 - 1868)
Donor Capt. Edward Gustavus Fast (1869)

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