Rattle-Top Basket
Tlingit
Northwest Coast
about 1900
Spruce root (warp and weft), maidenhair fern (false-embroidery bands) twining technique
Overall: 3 3/4 × 5 3/8 in. (9.5 × 13.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
44.22.8812
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Basket
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Northwest Coast
Not on view
Exhibition History
Northern Native American Basketry, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 4, 1990-October 20, 1991.
Publication History
Tamara Northern and Davina Begaye, Guide to the Exhibition of Northern Native American Basketry, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1990.
Provenance
Collected by Mrs. Stephen A. Jennings, Old Settler's House, Orford, New Hampshire; sold to present collection, 1944.
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