Basket Item Number: 1929.414 from the MAA: University of Cambridge

Description

Square topped basket which tapers to base. Basket has yellow background with black and brown imbricated decoration.; 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 (G.Crowther). The original European tribal names and, where possible, current tribal names have both been given in separate GLT fields.Woodlands GRASAC project