Basket

Northwest Coast, Native American

Late 19th-early 20th century

Titles Basket (Descriptive)
Medium grass fiber
Credit Line Museum purchase, 1956.48.238
Object Name basket
Classification Containers

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A pair of silver earrings, blossom design with six fluted ovate part with a six petaled top loosely attached and a four petaled bottom soldered on

Soap-berry spoon crudely made of red cedar

Artist-manipulated digitally reproduced photograph by C.M. (Charles Milton) Bell; subject is Déaxitchish / Pretty Eagle seated, partial figure, three-quarter view, head facing front. Elements of regalia outlined in red; text annotations in red radiate from figure.

Spruce root, cylindrical berry basket. Cloth lugs, whole.

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