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Large bent-corner chest
Unrecorded Tlingit artist Native American
Not on view
Bent-corner chests housed and stored valuable personal and ceremonial objects. Chiefs also used them as seats of honor on special occasions. The artist crafted the sides of the chest from a single, long plank. To form the corners, he cut three wedge-shaped grooves (kerfs) on the inner surface, soaked the plank in water, steamed it, bent it into ninety-degree angles along the grooves, and then lashed the two sides of the fourth corner together with a cord.
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