Grass basket - Inartaq
Alaska State Museum > Alaska State Museum Alutiiq/Sugpiaq Ethnographic Collection
II-F-303
Grass;Human-made
Height: 3.25"
Diameter: 2.5"
20th century
Alutiiq
Note from the weaver says it is a "1979 Kodiak innovative Attu basket. Set it on its knob and it is the Avon Creme Supreme jar." Made for the Museum and donated by Eunice Neseth, Kodiak.
Small basket with lid. Made of beach rye and cotton embroidery floss. Design consists of an encircling row of purple vertical bars and a row of tiny pink, blue and lavender flowers with a similar motif on the top of the 1 1/2" diameter knob.
Small basket with lid. Made of beach rye and cotton embroidery floss. Design consists of an encircling row of purple vertical bars and a row of tiny pink, blue and lavender flowers with a similar motif on the top of the 1 1/2" diameter knob.