Berry Basket Item Number: D1.460 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Large flared rectangular coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with skin tumpline and string ties. Parallel base construction. Upper portion of basket is fully imbricated in cat-tail grass (?), with bow tie-like design, outlined in dark cherry bark and red cherry bark with two thin parallel vertical lines in red cherry bark. Lower portion of basket has alternating vertical bands of "cluster of flies" checkerboard pattern, in cat-tail grass (?) with red cherry bark, and cat-tail grass (?) with dark cherry bark.
History Of Use
Berry basket.
Iconographic Meaning
This basket features a variant of the stone hammer design. The decoration near the base represents a cluster of flies.
Item History
- Made in Mount Currie, British Columbia, Canada and Pemberton, British Columbia, Canada before 1950
- Received from Unknown (Unknown)
What
- Name
- Berry Basket
- Identification Number
- D1.460
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- cedar root, cat-tail grass ?, cherry bark, dye, skin and fibre
- Manufacturing Technique
- coiled and imbricated
- Overall
- height 33.7 cm, width 45.3 cm, depth 36.5 cm
Who
- Culture
- Interior Salish: Stl'atl'imx
- Received from
- Unknown (Unknown)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Mount Currie, British Columbia, Canada and Pemberton, British Columbia, Canada
When
- Creation Date
- before 1950
Other
- Item Classes
- basketry
- Condition
- good
- Current Location
- Case 29