Admiralty Island / Neltushkin (near), Alexander Archipelago, Alaska, United States, North America
Accession Date:
29 Apr 1904
Notes:
From card: "Basket of spruce root, found in the rock cave burial place of a deceased Shaman of the Hook-ah-tar tribe of the Tlingit people of southeastern Alaska. The cave was on a rocky headland of Admiralty Island, on the Chatham Strait shore near the old village of Neltooskin. This basket was used to drink salt water from before practicing or when fasting. The two bands of ornamentation are in the designs of the butterfly and the half head of the salmonberry. Fitted with a handle of twisted spruce root. Illus. Fig. 28, p. 20 in A Guide to Weft Twining by David W. Fraser. Philadelphia: University of Penn. Press, 1989."
