Basket

Item number 1924.688 A-C from the MAA: University of Cambridge.

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Description

A) Small circular basket decorated with two narrow lines of green and another of purple.
B) Circular basket in process of making, decorated with yellow and purple lines.
C) Grass from which baskets are made. This is missing 021993 (G.Crowther).; Good

Context

Although the catalogue card states these baskets are Almost certainly Bella Coola the style suggests Westcoast or Nuu-Chah- Nulth, or Makah (G.Crowther). The original European tribal names and, where possible, current tribal names have both been given in separate GLT fields.; Exhibited: A). This basket was on display in the old anthropological collections at CUMAA, case 36, dismantled 081986.
'1924.688 A and B are wrapped twine baskets of a kind much more commonly
made by Nuu-Chah-Nulth (old ethnographic term: Nootkan) people of the west
coast of Vancouver Island. Nuu-Chah-Nulth women traveled extensively, and
sold baskets at canneries and on local steamships. It' s not uncommon to
find baskets that have been collected in localities apart from the west
coast of Vancouver Island. On the other hand, I have never seen any
indication that Nuxalk women made wrapped twine basketry at that time, or
even now. Andrea Laforet, Director, Ethnology and Cultural Studies, Canadian Museum of Civilisation, 29/11/2004.'