Grass basket - Inartaq
University of Alaska-Fairbanks Museum of the North > University of Alaska-Fairbanks Museum of the North Alutiiq/Sugpiaq Ethnographic Collection
UAM:EH:0026-0007AB
Grass;Glass;Animal materials
Height: 8.25"
Width: 4"
19th century
Alutiiq
Glass decanter covered with fine grass twining; beaded with red, pink and blue silk thread; no glass stopper; lid of grass; 8 1/4"; this bottle is supposedly from the wreck of the "Tillamook" which was driven ashore on Wood Island on Thanksgiving Day, 1900. Woven by Mrs. E. Frim. NOTE: lid is A and basketry-covered bottle is B.