Lidded Basketry Chest Item Number: 2002-89/2 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Automatically Generated From Material
The cedar is slat. The cherry bark is dye and black.
Item History
- Received from Estate of Frances Backus
What
- Name
- Lidded Basketry Chest
- Identification Number
- 2002-89/2
- Type of Item
- lidded basketry chest
- Material
- cedar wood, cedar root, split root, cherry bark, dye, grass ? and cornhusk
- Manufacturing Technique
- dyed, coiled, imbricated and beaded
- Overall
- length 19.5 in, height 12.2 in, width 13.5 in
Who
- Culture
- Coast Salish: Sto:lo
- Received from
- Estate of Frances Backus
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Gift in memory of Frany Backus
- Motif
- Geometric
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection