Credit line: Basket (Tlingit), circa 1900, Department of the Interior purchase, 1936, U.S. Department of the Interior Museum, INTR 00416
Context: This piece was purchased in 1936 from a California collector, Helen G. Gibson bearing an accompanying original E. M. Rhodes & Co. sales tag (not shown).
Descriptive text: A 3D model depicts a flared gathering basket with a flat base which is Tlingit in cultural origin and made in Klukwan, Alaska, circa 1900. It is 5.125 inches high and 6.5 inches in diameter. The construction is twined with false embroidery. There is undyed spruce root with four courses of lightly dyed (pale orange) spruce root bordering the upper and lower design bands. The false embroidery portions consist of undyed and dyed (yellow and orange) beargrass and maidenhair fern (black) with a central portion bearing images of two whales (orca) swimming in right profile and two shaman faces.
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