Basket
Sugpiaq (Alutiiq)
Western Arctic
Arctic
collected 1905
Split spruce root (warp and weft), false embroidery of maidenhair fern, bear grass, bird quills (?); plain twining and three-strand twining (bottom) technique
Overall: 6 1/8 × 5 1/8 in. (15.5 × 13 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.17.9397
Geography
Place Made: Chugach, United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Basket
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic
Not on view
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
Collected by Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), in Sitka, Alaska, May-June 1905; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.
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