DepartmentUnited States & Canada
Rattletop Basket
NameBasket
CultureTlingit
Datec. 1920
Place madeAlaska, United States, North America
MediumSpruce root, grass, natural dye
Dimensions3 9/16 × 5 9/16 in. (9 × 14.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1980.36.761V
Object numberA.1980.36.761V
DescriptionWoven with spruce root with decorations of dyed root. Cylindrical basket with flat lid. Center of lid is raised to form box which has stones in it to rattle. Geometric pattern in brown, red, blue.
late 19th - early 20th century
c. 1920
c. 1925
c. 1920
1920s-1930s
ca. 1922
20th century
