Lidded Basket Item Number: 1992-90/7 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
12. Cedar Bark Grass Basket Makah
Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth weavers developed a thriving
cottage industry in the production of small trinket baskets
during the late 1800s and early 1900s (see Studying
Baskets).
Item History
- Received from Kateri Brow
What
- Name
- Lidded Basket
- Identification Number
- 1992-90/7
- Type of Item
- lidded basket
- Material
- cedar bark, bear grass, dye, sedge grass and raffia
- Manufacturing Technique
- plaited, twined, dyed and wrapped twined
- Overall
- height 1.5 in, diameter 2.7 in
Who
- Culture
- Makah
- Received from
- Kateri Brow
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Gift from the family of Adeline G. Brow
- Motif
- Duck | Canoe | Human | Circle | Stripe
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection