Basket Item Number: 1-716 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Automatically Generated From Material
The cedar bark is natural and black.
Exhibit Label
Basketry was a woman's art. Women also wove cedar bark mats, capes, hats, and baby carriers. Baskets were used for gathering, cooking, and storing food. Today, as in the past, baskets are also made for sale and given as gifts at potlatches.
Item History
- Received from Mrs. Lee
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- 1-716
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- cedar bark
- Manufacturing Technique
- plaited and dyed
Who
- Culture
- Kwakwaka'wakw
- Received from
- Mrs. Lee
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Motif
- Bands
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection