Basket Item Number: A8445 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Part (a) coiled basket (with bifurcated stitiches) with pedastal base. Imbrication in crabapple bark, black cherry bark and cat-tail grass in repeating parallel zig-zag bands of crabapple bark, cat-tail grass (?), dyed cherry bark, cat-tail grass (?), crabapple bark. Watch-spring base and lid construction. One row of crabapple bark at the rim of basket and on rim of lid part (b). Overcast handles on basket and knob handle on lid. Lid has similar imbrication pattern.
Cultural Context
basketry; storage
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada
- Collected during 1910
- Owned by Mrs. A. C. Whitley
- Owned by Paul Whitley before 1964
- Received from H. R. MacMillan (Funding source) and Paul Whitley (Seller) during 1964
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- A8445
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- cedar root, crabapple bark, cherry bark and cat-tail grass ?
- Manufacturing Technique
- coiled and imbricated
- Part A
- height 16.8 cm, diameter 23.5 cm
- Part B
- height 6.4 cm, diameter 19.5 cm
Who
- Culture
- Interior Salish ?
- Previous Owner
- Mrs. A. C. Whitley and Paul Whitley
- Received from
- H. R. MacMillan (Funding source) and Paul Whitley (Seller)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
When
- Collection Date
- during 1910
- Ownership Date
- before 1964
- Acquisition Date
- during 1964
Other
- Item Classes
- basketry
- Condition
- good
- Current Location
- Case 33
- Accession Number
- 0115/0003