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Object Details
- Collection History
- Possibly collected by Alonzo Eugene Austin (1868-1948, a New York City doctor of homeopathy who spent his boyhood in Alaska as the son of Presbyterian missionary parents); donated to MAI by Dr. Austin and his wife Sarah Hall Austin (1871-1952) in 1930.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 16/8429
- Barcode
- 168429.000
- Culture/People
- Tlingit
- Possible collector
- Dr. A. Eugene Austin (Alonzo Eugene Austin, Jr.), Non-Indian, 1868-1948
- Previous owner
- Dr. A. Eugene Austin (Alonzo Eugene Austin, Jr.), Non-Indian, 1868-1948
- Sarah H. Austin (Sarah Frances Hall/Mrs. Alonzo Eugene Austin), Non-Indian, 1871-1952
- Donor
- Dr. A. Eugene Austin (Alonzo Eugene Austin, Jr.), Non-Indian, 1868-1948
- Sarah H. Austin (Sarah Frances Hall/Mrs. Alonzo Eugene Austin), Non-Indian, 1871-1952
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Object Name
- Basket
- Media/Materials
- Spruce root, bear grass
- Techniques
- Twined, false-embroidered
- Place
- Alaska; USA
- See related items
- Tlingit
- Containers and Vessels
- Record ID
- NMAI_180585
