Basket Item Number: 1924.679 from the MAA: University of Cambridge
Description
Tightly coiled rectangular basket with imbricated step pattern in black cream and red bark, the ground is light brown.; Good
Context
Identified by George Heye as Coast Salish. However the basket is very similar to baskets made by the Interior Salish, for example a basket illustrated in Andrea Laforet' s article in Basketmakers, Meaning and Form in Native American Baskets, PittRivers Museum, Oxford, 1992, page 41, fig.37. Furthermore the catalogue card gives a provenance of the Thompson River which is Interior Salish area. The original European tribal names and, where possible, current tribal names have both been given in separate GLT fields.; Possibly made for sale (G.Crowther).
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada
- Received from Dr. A.C. Haddon during 1924
What
Who
- Culture
- Coast Salish ? or Interior Salish: Nlaka'pamux ?
- Received from
- Dr. A.C. Haddon
Where
- Holding Institution
- MAA: University of Cambridge
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
When
- Acquisition Date
- during 1924
Other
- Keyword
- Basketry; Food Preparation; Containers; Food Gathering