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Rattle-top Lidded Basket
Culture of Origin: Tlingit1900-1920
U.S. Department of the Interior Museum
Washington, DC, United States
The lid has a double-woven chamber for rattling enclosed seeds or pebbles. The traditional pattern dates to approximately the 1870s, but the design elements are rendered with later, commercial dyes.
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Details
- Title: Rattle-top Lidded Basket
- Creator: Culture of Origin: Tlingit
- Date Created: 1900-1920
- Physical Dimensions: DIA 6, H 3 inches
- Provenance: INTR 00456 a + b, Frona Eunice Wait Colburn
- Subject Keywords: twined, false embroidery, rattle-top, Tlingit, Northwest Coast, Native American, American Indian, North America
- Type: Basket
- Rights: U.S. Department of the Interior Museum
- Medium: spruce root, grass, dye, stone
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