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Basket for berries

The Alutiiq

first half of the 19th century

spruce root, straw, leather

height 13 cm, diameter at the top 17 cm, diameter at the bottom 11.5 cm

The women used baskets of this type to gather berries. They carried them on their chests by means of a cord tied around their necks. When they filled these baskets they would empty the berries into a large basket that was either carried on a woman’s back or was placed on the ground. This basket was published in the Museum’s Tlingit catalog as an article attributed to the Tlingit (Tlingit 2007: 76).

Ethnography of America