Basket Item Number: A489 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Cylindrical, dark brown basket with a tight, even weave, bands of decorative raised weaving around the top rim, and four bands of pink-red colour around the sides.

Narrative

This spruce-root cylindrical basket appears to be of Haida origin, but the collector (pre-1932) had tagged it as having been collected in Alert Bay. The basket may have been mislabelled by the collector, or it might have ended up in a Kwakwaka'wakw community through trade or intermarriage.