Tray
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
1903
Materials
Spruce root
Measurements
195 mm (Length)205 mm (W)40 mm (H)
Place of origin
Wrangel
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1304696
Summary
A circular shallow dished basket made from spruce root, the centre decorated with a stylised floral motif. Collected Wrangel, Alaska, 1903. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Provenance
Collected by Lord Egerton in Wrangel, Alaska in 1903.
Marks and inscriptions
Associated label. Spruce root tray. Woven by the Takulat Indians of Alaska.