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Basketry Purse

The Burke: University of Washington

2012-100/53

The swamp grass is natural, dark blue, purple, red, green, pink, yellow, and brown.

  • Type of Item basketry purse
  • Culture Nuu-chah-nulth
  • Material cedar bark, swamp grass, raffia, sedge grass
  • Manufacturing Technique plaited, twined, wrapped twined, dyed, twisted
  • Measurements length 13.0 in, height 8.5 in, width 7.5 in (overall)
  • Received from Suttles Family Trust
  • Credit From the Wayne Suttles Collection, Gift of the Suttles Family Trust
  • Motif Whale | Canoe | Human | Eagle | Lightning Serpent | Bands
  • Collection Burke Museum Ethnology Collection

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