Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2002.26.005 A—B
Accession#:
2002.26
Credit Line:
Donated by Mike Blackwell.
Object Name:
Basket
Title:
Tlingit Spruce Root Basket w/ Rattle in Lid
Date:
1935
Description:
A — Twined spruce root Tlingit basket. Design around sides in "false embroidery" technique done in stepped meander pattern in plant fiber dyed orange.
B — Lid features similar designs but includes brown and green elements. Large low cone—shaped knob in center contains filling (shot or pebbles(?) that rattle when shook.
Notes:
Baskets purchased by donor's parents, Vance & Henrietta Blackwell, sometime in mid—1930's, if not in Kake, then from the Nugget Shop. Vance & Henrietta were not generally art collectors.
Search Terms:
Ethnographic
Tlingit
Basket
Tourism
Personal Belonging
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