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- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 29721
- World Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- State/Province
- Alaska
- Political Location
- Fort Wrangell
- Geographic Location
- Wrangell Island
- Period
- AD 1850 - 1950
- Culture
- Tlingit
- Description
- Cylindrical twined basket with colored false embroidered geometric decoration in three bands. Twined made of roots of the spruce, decorated with false embroidery in wild rye or hair grass, either natural colored or dyed. Very fine workmanship, the ornamentation has reference to natural features and waterways usually. About 50,000 stitches in the basket.
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- Photographer (UMMA Artifact): Clahassey, Kay
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- Collection
- UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
- Image Size
- 3392 x 3285
- File Size
- 1 MB
- Record
- 30435
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/anthro1ic/x-30435/30435
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"Cylindrical twined basket with colored false embroidered geometric decoration in three bands. Twined made of roots of the spruce, decorated with false embroidery in wild rye or hair grass, either natural colored or dyed. Very fine workmanship, the ornamentation has reference to natural features and waterways usually. About 50,000 stitches in the basket.". In the digital collection UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/anthro1ic/x-30435/30435. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. June 02, 2024.