Basket
Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected in 1885 by Elizabeth Neill Thompson (Mrs. John Meredith Thompson, 1850-1931) or a member of her family, all of whom travelled west and settled in Oregon in the 1850s; donated to MAI by Mrs. Thompson in 1924.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 12/9460
- Barcode
- 129460.000
- Culture/People
- Tlingit
- Possible collector
- Elizabeth Neill Thompson (Elizabeth N. Cooper Thompson/Mrs. John Meredith Thompson), Non-Indian, 1850-1931
- Previous owner
- Elizabeth Neill Thompson (Elizabeth N. Cooper Thompson/Mrs. John Meredith Thompson), Non-Indian, 1850-1931
- Donor
- Elizabeth Neill Thompson (Elizabeth N. Cooper Thompson/Mrs. John Meredith Thompson), Non-Indian, 1850-1931
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Object Name
- Basket
- Media/Materials
- Spruce root, bear grass
- Techniques
- Twined, false-embroidered
- Place
- Sitka; Sealaska Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
- Archipelago
- Alexander Archipelago
- Island Name
- Baranof Island
- See related items
- Tlingit
- Containers and Vessels
- Record ID
- NMAI_139210
