Round basket with gammadion cross design. Woven basket has a recessed base from which rises the wall, flaring slightly outward toward rim. Weaving is fine and tight, and decoration is an imbricated pattern of an encircling line of gammadion crosses (swastikas) at centre in dark brown between rows of parallelograms in brown and shades of orange.

• Narrative

  Purchased by the donor from the BC Provincial Museum's shop in 1975.

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• Type of Item basket
• Culture Tlingit
• Material grass
• Measurements height 10.7 cm, width 13.7 cm, depth 14.0 cm (overall)

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• Previous Owner Sharon J. Proctor
• Received from Sharon J. Proctor

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• Made in Alaska

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• Creation Date before 1975
• Collection Date during 1975
• Ownership Date before November 9, 2016
• Acquisition Date on November 9, 2016

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• Item Classes basketry
• Condition good
• Accession Number 3207/0006