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Object Type
Museum number: Am1949,22.122
Description: Basketry, storage basket made with plant material (bear grass, spruce or willow roots; willow or hazel sticks; woodwardia fern dyed with alder roots and maidenhair fern?), using twined technique. Design: Obsidian blade.
Production ethnic group
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Found/Acquired: California (state) (?)
Materials: bear grass (?); spruce root (?); willow root (?); willow (?); hazel wood (?); woodwardia fern fibre (?); alder bark (?); maidenhair fern fibre (?)
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 22 centimetres; Height: 20 centimetres
Curator's comments: Register 1949: North West Coast. Oldman Collection. See ETH DOC 1307. Register 1949: Basket, twined, natural colour with geometrical ornament in red and black.
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Funder name
Acquisition date: 1949
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Am1949,22.122

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