Basket, Grass - Inartaq
Kodiak History Museum > Kodiak History Museum Alutiiq/Sugpiaq Ethnographic Collection
83-24-1 a,b
Grass;Glass
Height: 27 cm.
Diameter: 19 cm.
20th century
Alutiiq
Courtesy of the Kodiak History Museum
Martha Kahutak Collection
A) basket: 7 cm tall overall, 5 cm diam bottom tapering to 7.5 cm diam opening, woven bottom slightly concave, three rows of cranberry dyed grass around bottom edge, with small green glass beads in /\/\/\ pattern. On each side a rather large rose is woven in two tones of pink embroidery w/ leaves in two tones of green embroidery thread. Basket is not quite uniformaly shaped as no form was used to shape it.
B) lid: 3.5 cm tall including small knob which is 1 cm diameter. Has a pattern of two rows of blueberry dyed grass, three rows of cranberry dyed grass and two more rows of bluberry dyed grass. Very unifomly woven.