Basket Item Number: STC1989:B411(a-b) from the Sto:lo Research & Resource Management Centre
Description
Large circular basket with flat lid. Lid has no design or handle. Diamond shaped imbrication pattern along sides. Yellow bark for the middle of each diamond and the outside of the diamond is outlined with black or red bark.
Provenance
Amy Cooper identified the basket as one started by Mrs. Catholic Tommy, sister of Billy Sepass and finished by Mrs. Willie Dick. Mrs. Tommy was blind and would start the baskets to be finished by her daughter, Mrs. Dick.
Item History
- Collected by Edna Pearl Dusterhoeft on January 1, 1989
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- STC1989:B411(a-b)
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- cedar wood
- Overall
- height 15.0 cm
Who
- Culture
- Coast Salish: Sto:lo
- Field Collector
- Edna Pearl Dusterhoeft
Where
- Holding Institution
- Sto:lo Research & Resource Management Centre
- Collected in
- “unknown” ?
When
- Collection Date
- on January 1, 1989
Other
- Homeloc
- Sto:lo Material Culture Repository