Basket Item Number: E360834-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
From card: "Coiled, imbricated basket with cover attached. There is an old piece of brass worked into the basket to serve as a catch."Basket was purchased by Victor Evans from Grace Nicholson in 1919; Nicholson # 6036. See copy of Evans correspondence with Nicholson, dated June 19, 1919, filed in the Anthropology Collections Lab accession file; original of correspondence is part of the Grace Nicholson Papers and Addenda, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California; see online finding aid https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf787005cq/ . A small label glued on bottom of basket, presumably from Grace Nicholson, says "6036 Cowichan old."
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada
- Collected in British Columbia, Canada
- Received from Victor J. Evans on March 20, 1931
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- E360834-0
- Type of Item
- basket
Who
- Culture
- Cowichan
- Received from
- Victor J. Evans
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
- Collected in
- British Columbia, Canada
When
- Acquisition Date
- on March 20, 1931
Other
- Accession Number
- 113605