Basket Item Number: SN1998:B8 from the Sto:lo Research & Resource Management Centre
Description
round; does not look North American in origin
Provenance
This collection was donated to the Chilliwack Museum & Historical Society in 1994, upon which Ron Denman donated them to Sto:lo Tribal Council.
Mrs. Eleanor Kipp (nee Maurer) had the baskets made during the 1930s by First Nations women in exchange for some clothes and a few dollars. Designs varied according to pattern and shapes available from the basket makers.
Item History
- Collected by Mrs. Eleanor Kipp
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- SN1998:B8
- Type of Item
- basket
- Overall
- height 11.5 cm
Who
- Culture
- Coast Salish: Sto:lo
- Field Collector
- Mrs. Eleanor Kipp
Where
- Holding Institution
- Sto:lo Research & Resource Management Centre
- Collected in
- “unknown” ?
Other
- Homeloc
- Coqualeetza Site Bldg 10