Berry Basket
Tlingit
Northwest Coast
collected late 1920s-1945
Split spruce root (warp and weft), bear grass (false-embroidery design), dye (faded) twining technique
Overall: 8 1/8 × 9 13/16 in. (20.7 × 25 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Doris Meltzer and the Meltzer Gallery
159.1.14280
Geography
Place Made: Yakutat, United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Basket
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Northwest Coast
Not on view
Course History
NAS 37, ANTH 47, Alaska: American Dreams and Native Realities, Sergei Kan, Winter 2014
NAS 37, ANTH 37, Alaska: American Dreams and Native Realities, Sergei Kan, Spring 2015
Exhibition History
Northern Native American Basketry, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 4, 1990-October 20, 1991..
Publication History
Tamara Northern and Davina Begaye, Guide to the Exhibition of Northern Native American Basketry, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1990.
Provenance
Hudson Bay Fur Company, Seattle, Washington, 1930's; sold to Axel Rasmussen (about 1887-1945), probably late 1920's-1945; [possibly collected by Earl Stendahl (1887-1966) [dealer], Los Angeles, California]; sold to Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; sold to Doris Meltzer (1908-1977), Meltzer Gallery, New York; given to present collection, 1959.
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