Basketry vessel
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 Aug 2012
label: Collection Date
content: 1899 to 1930
name: label: Collector
content: Edward S. Curtis
label: Donor Name
content: James "Jim" H. Graybill
notes: label: Notes
content: Cylindrical twined basket with concave base. Two horizontal bands of colored (black? brown?) "Z" and "S" designs. Woven, un-pigmented diamond patterns around rim and base. Rim heavily damaged and deformed.
label: Notes
content: Typed note inside vessel says: "33. Basketry Vessel. Tribe: Tlingit - Southern Alaska. Design: forward and backward "Z" pattern and upward and downward arrows in two bands around body, and a latent natural on natural ground diamond pattern; basic construction material is spruce root, with false embroidery for decoration in maidenhair fern stems and dyed grasses; all natural materials (vegetal dyes). Size: 6 1/2"h. 8" dia. Circa: 1890. Condition: poor, but capable of being repaired."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Southern, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2058745
label: USNM Number
content: E432848-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 17 cm
label: Width
content: 22 cm