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This unusual bowl-shaped spruce root basket was made by a Thlingit Indian woman of Yakutat about 1860. Miss Mae Mill's father, a merchant trader took it in trade from a Yakutat Indian. It was added to her collection. It is a salmonberry bowl. The designs on the inside as well as the outside make this a unique sample of Thlingit artistry. In 1946 this basket was obtained from Miss Mae Mills by Mrs. L.C. Berg. Design: the Butterfly-Klaythl-thlu Blanket border pattern, used before the purchase of Alaska from Russia.
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SITKA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK -ACCESSION 80
BORHAUER BASKET COLLECTION
Doris Borhauer's Basket Notes
These notes are as written by Doris Borhauer, including the historic way “Tlingit” is written.
© Sitka Tribe of Alaska - Pictures taken by Helen Dangel
 
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