Basket Item Number: Z 35098 from the MAA: University of Cambridge
Description
Cooking basket made of tightly coiled spruce root. The inside of the basket is heavily soiled from use. The outside has the traces of an imbricated design which is too faint to identify. The basket has a length of plaited cedar bark rope attachedto its rim.; Good
Context
The construction of the basket suggests it is Interior Salish in origin but it may have been trade along the coast (G.Crowther). The original European tribal names and, where possible, current tribal names have both been given in separate GLT fields.; A label attached to the baskets states, Cooking basket made of spruce root. The Indians heat stones and put in basket and put on stones clams and cover with seaweed.
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada
- Received from Dr. A.C. Haddon during 1938
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- Z 35098
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- root, spruce wood and cedar wood ?
Who
- Culture
- Interior Salish ?
- Received from
- Dr. A.C. Haddon
Where
- Holding Institution
- MAA: University of Cambridge
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
When
- Acquisition Date
- during 1938 ?
Other
- Keyword
- Basketry; Food Preparation; Containers