basket; container; lid

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Object Type: basket; container; lid
Museum number: Am1948,17.37.a-b
Description: Basketry, trinket or tobacco basket with lid, made with plant material (bear grass, spruce or willow roots; willow or hazel sticks; woodwardia fern dyed with alder roots and maidenhair fern?) made using twined technique. Design: snake nose.
Production ethnic group: Made by: Karok
Findspot: Found/Acquired: California (state)
Materials: bear grass (?); spruce root (?); willow root (?); hazel wood (?); willow (?); woodwardia fern fibre (?); alder bark (?); maidenhair fern fibre (?)
Technique: twined (basketry)
Dimensions: Diameter: 9 centimetres; Height: 12 centimetres
Curator's comments: Register 1948: Karok, SW USA. Douglas No. YKa 34 p. See ETHDOC 1296. Register 1948: Basketry container, bowl-shaped with lid attached to loop handle, AM1948,17.37.b; twined.
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name: Exchanged with: Denver Art Museum (through Dr.F.H.Douglas)
Acquisition date: 1948
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Am1948,17.37.a-b

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