Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Mar 1958
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Park Service
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Coled grass basket with conical top terminating in a button-shaped finial. Decorated with thin linework in colored yarn. Purchased sometime between 1900-1910."
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=710 , retrieved 7-17-2018: Basket. From Norton Sound north to Kotzebue Sound on the western Alaskan coast, Inupiaq women gathered and dried wild grasses for basket making. They used coils of grass to build the flat bottom and rounded sides of the basket, stitching the coils together with interwoven vertical strands. Berry juice and other dyes added color accents to the weaving. Lidded baskets like this one held small, valuable items.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Eastern, Siberia, Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chukchi
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 217876
label: USNM Number
content: E394774-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 23 cm