Twined Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Jul 1932
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Howard M. Broadbent
notes: label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: From card: "Design in colored woolen yarn. Good condition, age c 30 years. Cylindrical in form. Less use of colored woolen yarn than in 363052. Design colors: red, lavender + black."
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 http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=702, retrieved 5-14-2014: Grass bag Woven grass baskets with a loose, open weave allowed for the drainage of wet contents such as sea urchins, mussels, chitons, and seaweed. Open weave bags were also used for carrying fish, and are often called "fish baskets." Seaweed and shellfish are important foods today as in the past, when they gave nourishment during bad weather that kept hunters from going to sea in their kayaks.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Attu Island / Attu, Aleutian Islands / Attu Quad, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Aleut (Unangax^ ; Unangan; Unangas)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 119991
label: USNM Number
content: E363051-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 37 cm