Baby Carrier
NA9469
Location: On Display in the Native American Voices
From: Alaska | Klukwan
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | NA9469 |
| Current Location | Native American Voices - On Display |
| Culture | Tlingit |
| Provenience | Alaska | Klukwan |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Spruce Root | Cedar | String |
| Technique | Basketry | Twined |
| Description | Baby carrier comprised of woven spruce root folded over a bent, wooden frame. Spruce root lashings and cotton string is used to hold the basketry in shape. The outer, lower edge has a raven's cradle board design woven in. This design is separated from the rest of the basketry by a weft row, which is narrower than the rest of the material and woven on a diagonal. Made from reused basketry. Would be covered with soft buckskin when in use. Technical notes: twined, close twined, two-strand, in-between weave (with plain), three-strand, diagonal/twill twining; 15 warps, 16 wefts per square inch. |
| Height | 11 cm |
| Width | 61.7 cm |
| Depth | 29.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 0 cm |
| Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1923 |
| Other Number | 12 - Other Number |
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