Basket Item Number: E 1910.22 from the MAA: University of Cambridge
Description
Rectangular tightly coiled basket made from cedar or spruce root. The sides have an imbricated design, in zig-zags, and vertical bands on one side. The basket shows sign of use and is dark with age.; Good
Context
Although the catalogue card gives a provenance of Kwakiutl the style of basket, design and structure, is much more like those made by the Interior Salish, for example a basket illustrated in Andrea Laforet' s article in Basketmakers, Meaning and Form in Native American Baskets, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, 1992, page 41, fig.37. It is possible the baskets were acquired by the Kwakiutl in trade from the Interior Salish (G.Crowther). The original European tribal names and, where possible, current tribal names have both been given in separate GLT fields.; The basket has several holes punctured into the sides at the top edge possibly used for a carrying line as for a burden basket. The basket would have been used for collecting.
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada
- Received from Dr. J.W.L. Glaisher during 1910
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- E 1910.22
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- root, spruce wood, cedar wood and bark
Who
- Culture
- Kwakwaka'wakw ? or Interior Salish ?
- Received from
- Dr. J.W.L. Glaisher
Where
- Holding Institution
- MAA: University of Cambridge
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
When
- Acquisition Date
- during 1910
Other
- Keyword
- Basketry; Food Preparation; Food Gathering; Containers