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cooking; storage

History Of Use

May have been a cooking basket, as it is tightly coiled, waterproof type. Boiling in watertight baskets was done by filling the basket with water and dropping heated stones into it. Food was placed in the boiling water.

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Basket traded in area between Nanaimo and Jervis Inlet (collector's notes). There are only a few islands in this area to which this information may refer. They are: Thormanby islands, Lasqueti Island, Texada Island, Nelson Island and Hardy Island. A map showing village sites of the Northern Coast Salish in the Handbook of North American Indians, shows that the smaller Thormanby island had a village site that was known as sxwelap 'deep furrow'. Village sites are not indicated for the other islands previously mentioned (see Kennedy and Bouchard 1990:442-3).

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Rectangular cedar basket, flared, decreasing in size to the bottom. Tightly coiled with a slat bottom and a rim of narrow width bundles around which cedar is not coiled. Coiled cherry bark with row of beaded grass finishes top edge. Imbricated design of three horizontal zig zag rows of red and black cherry bark and yellow grass are along the sides.