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Accession # 43.201.288
Culture Tlingit
Title Twined Cylindrical Basket with False Embroidery
Date early 20th century
Medium Spruce root, grass, maidenhead fern
Dimensions 7 1/2 x 7 7/8in. (19 x 20cm) Other: 7 1/2 x 7 7/8in. (19 x 20cm)
Credit Line Anonymous gift in memory of Dr. Harlow Brooks
Location American Identities: Colony to Nation / Inventing American Landscape
Description Cylindrical twined basket with two bands of zig zags around it which is called a shaman's hat design. The design is done in dried grass (orange and red color) and fern (black color). Info by Teri Rofkar, Tlingit weaver, 4/1/03.