Tlingit

Basket

Tlinglit, 1900-1932

Scroll

Tlingit

Basket

Tlinglit, 1900-1932

Physical Qualities Spruce root, red, green, yellow dyes, 7 × 8 1/2 in. (17.8 × 21.6 cm.)

Credit Line Gift of Dena S. Katzenberg, Baltimore

Object Number 1980.480

Pail shaped basket with false embroidery 'blanket border' design including dark brown horizontal band enclosing red, green, yellow fret motifs near base and rim; center horizontal band of blue and red crosses; brown ground. Twined.

The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1980; Dena S. Katzenberg, Baltimore.

Dena Katzenberg, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "And Eagles Sweep Across the Sky", September 18-November 13, 1977, no. 10, p. 84 ill.

Anita Jones, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Woven Rainbows: American Indian Trade Blankets," November 9, 2005-June 11, 2006

Katzenberg, Dena. And eagles sweep across the sky. Indian textiles of the North American West. Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1977, cat. no. 10, p. 84, ill.

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