Twined Basket

Object Details

Donor Name

Victor J. Evans

From card: "Twined, with decorative overlay."

Basket was purchased by Evans from dealer Grace Nicholson in 1919; Nicholson # 6156. See copy of Evans correspondence with Nicholson, dated June 19, 1919, filed in the Anthropology Collections Lab accession file; original of correspondence is part of the Grace Nicholson Papers and Addenda, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California; see online finding aid https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf787005cq/ .A small label, presumably from Grace Nicholson, is glued inside rim of basket: "6156 Yakutat."

Record Last Modified

14 Apr 2020

Specimen Count

1

Culture

Tlingit, Yakutat

Accession Date

20 Mar 1931

Accession Number

113605

USNM Number

E360533-0

Object Type

Basket

Place

Southeast, Alaska, United States, North America

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Topic

Ethnology

Record ID

nmnhanthropology_8407371

Metadata Usage (text)

CC0

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/339613eb2-4081-44e4-9311-aa84e0194c91