Basket
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
1903
Materials
Spruce root
Measurements
145 mm (H)130 mm (W)170 mm (D)
Place of origin
Wrangel
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1304700
Summary
A woven spruce wood basket, the sides with section of open weave and decorated with geometric panels. Collected in Wrangell, 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 1903.
Marks and inscriptions
Associated label - Examples of basketry by the Alaskan Coast Indians. The tall basket is made of split spruce tree roots. The flat basket of seagrass. Collected Wrangel, Alaska.