Basket Item Number: E 1910.27 from the MAA: University of Cambridge
Description
Very large tightly coiled rectangular basket with a metal wire woven into the rim with projecting loops possibly for the attachment of a tumpline. The basket is decorated with imbricated designs of diamonds composed of brown, black and cream bark.; 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.
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada
- Received from Dr. J.W.L. Glaisher during 1910
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- E 1910.27
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- bark, cherry, root and cedar wood ?
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