Currently not on view
Basketry bottle,
before 1883
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Special Exhibition
<p>In the nineteenth century traditional Tlingit basketry became a popular trade item with sailors and explorers. Artists began incorporating elements that they believed would appeal to the international market, using foreign forms and weaving grass around other objects, including glass bottles and ceramic pots.</p>
Information
before 1883
North America, Sheet'ká Ḵwáan (Sitka)
Probably collected by John G. Brady on behalf of Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson 1878-1883; Given to E. M. Museum (Princeton Museum of Natural History), 1882-1885