Basket Item Number: 1978.4 from the MAA: University of Cambridge
Description
Rectangular based coiled basket. The basket has the remains of an imbricated design on the first 2 cm from the base as though it was started off in one technique and then finished in another.; Good
Context
This basket is similar to one illustrated in Andrea Laforet' s article in Basketmakers, Meaning and Form in Native American Baskets, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, 1992, page 41, fig.37. This type of basket was characteristic of the Interior Salish of Southern British Columbia and many were traded along the coast to the more northerly peoples. The original European tribal names and, where possible, current tribal names have both been given in separate GLT fields.
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada
- Received from R.S. Newall during 1978
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- 1978.4
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- root, spruce wood and cedar wood ?
Who
- Culture
- Interior Salish ?
- Received from
- R.S. Newall
Where
- Holding Institution
- MAA: University of Cambridge
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
When
- Acquisition Date
- during 1978
Other
- Keyword
- Containers; Basketry; Food Gathering