Lid
Basket lid:plain twined with false embroidery. Warp - spruce root; Weft- spruce root. False embroidery - natural grass (yellow) orange dyed grass. Design pattern- two rows of parallelograms,one near the center of the lid, one near the rim. The paralelleograms alternate orange, yellow, orange, yellow & so on; 6 dark lines on exterrior weft.
- Object: Lid
- Artist: Unknown
- Circa: Early 1900's
- Dimensions: 7" inch diameter
- Culture Area: Northwest Coast
- Cultural Group: Tlingit
- Cultural Context: Lid to a trinket basket or small storage basket.
- Donor: Mendocino County Museum
- Catalog #: 96.142