Basket

Item number E 1910.25 from the MAA: University of Cambridge.

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Description

Large rectangular tightly coiled basket decorated with imbricated vertical checkered bands of cherry bark and a lighter bark. The upper rim of the basket has three pieces of knotted cloth that probably attached to a carrying strap or tumpline.; 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 burden basket would have been used by women when collecting berries etc. from the forest.