Basket
Item
- Title
- Basket
- Tribe
- Yakutat
- Location
- Alaska
- Dimensions
- 6 3/4 x 8 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches 17.1 x 21.6 x 19.1 cm
- Accession Number
- NAB-12
- Collector
- A.H. Fay
- Description
- According to the Sheldon Museum, baskets such as this would have been woven by women during winter months, when there was less harvesting and planting work to be done. The design is delicately woven into the basket to express the artist’s individual aesthetic sense.
- Media
- Woven basketry
- Item sets
- Sunnergren
- Media
Basket