Imbricated Basket Item Number: E222032-0 from the National Museum of Natural History

Notes

From card: "Round foundation, flat coil bottom bulging side body; leather thongs about top. "Fillers on side of basket" illus. in BAE 41st AR, fig. 63, p. 276. Illus. in BAE 41st AR, Pl. 32a, p. 484. In BAE 41st AR Pl. 32a, Haeberlin et al. attribute this basket to the Thompson Indians. - J. R. (4/85)."Note re provenience: Emmons in accession file identifies the basket as collected (probably purchased) in Victoria, B.C. and identifies it as Klikitat. Anthropology catalogue ledger book and catalogue card identify as Cowlitz or Skokomish, but in 1985 someone with initials "J.R." notes on the card that the basket was published as Thompson Indian in the BAE 41st Annual Report.