Tlingit basket in poor state of preservation but an old specimen with native dyes , as the catalogue card states. The basket is finely woven from spruce root with a false embroidery design made from grass and possibly maidenhair fern. The design has two bands of red and dark greenish black pattern which is a variation on the butterfly pattern identified by Emmons (1903:263-277). The central band is composed of stepped cream and reddish brown lines. The basket has been stitched together.; Good