Cooking Basket
Item number Nd569 a-b from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
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Description
Coiled cylindrical basket (with bifurcated stitches) with lid (part b). Top coil on rim of basket cut. Imbrication in black and red cherry bark and grass. Design is geometrical, two row horizontal band with 4 little crosses below band. Bottom of basket imbricated with arrow tip shapes with crosses at tips, alternating red or dark cherry bark, each with bear grass at tip. Coil on rim of lid also cut. Imbrication on lid is is two row band as on basket. Lid has coiled knob at center.
History Of Use
According to Nlaka'pamux Elder and basket maker Minnie Peters this is an example of the type of basket used for cooking. The tightness of the coils make it water tight. Food, such as fish, would be placed inside this basket with water and hot rocks from the fire would be dropped inside to boil the water.
Cultural Context
basketry; food preparation
Item History
- Made by Theresa Klama Voght ? (Maker) in Merritt, British Columbia, Canada before 1910
- Collected between 1910 and 1965
- Owned by Henry Castillou before 1965
- Received from Henry Castillou (Donor) during 1965
What
- Name
- Cooking Basket
- Identification Number
- Nd569 a-b
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- bear grass, cherry bark, cedar root and dye
- Manufacturing Technique
- coiled and imbricated
- Part A
- height 8.2 cm, diameter 13.0 cm
- Part B
- height 5.5 cm, diameter 13.2 cm
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Merritt, British Columbia, Canada
Who
- Culture
- Interior Salish: Nlaka'pamux
- Creator
- Theresa Klama Voght ? (Maker)
- Previous Owner
- Henry Castillou
- Received from
- Henry Castillou (Donor)
When
- Creation Date
- before 1910
- Collection Date
- between 1910 and 1965
- Ownership Date
- before 1965
- Acquisition Date
- during 1965
Other
- Item Classes
- basketry
- Condition
- fair
- Current Location
- Case 32
- Accession Number
- 0107/0069 a-b
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