Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
97.07.003 AB
Accession#:
97.07
Credit Line:
Donated by Kelly Gagnon.
Object Name:
Basket
Title:
Woven Spruce Root Basket in Coffee Pot Shape
Date:
1900
Description:
A — Split spruce root basket in shape of coffee pot; base and lid covered with false embroidery dyed with aniline(?) dyes in red, salmon and wheat. Lid, attached near handle, decorated with 8 triangles (4 red, 4 wheat) in circular pattern around woven raised "knob", brim of lid has 3 rows of twined spruce root in red and wheat. Base has 4 rows of embroidered triangles moving around circumference, colors of triangles alternate. Small spout opposite woven handle. Inside of pot finished in purple and green stripes alternating with natural colored bands.
B — Detached woven bail, broken at rim of pot at both points of attachment.
Notes:
See 97.07.001
Search Terms:
Tlingit
Native
Weaving
Tourism
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