Basket Item Number: A6394 a-b from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Large rounded coil basket (bifurcated stitches) on pedastal with wide foot, and lid with flange and knob handle. Rawhide through one side and knotted. Fully imbricated with horizontal rows alternating in cat-tail grass (?), cherry bark, cat-tail grass (?), and dark cherry bark, repeated. Horizontal bands divided by vertical bands in two patterns, one is of straight vertical bands of same alternating colour configuration, other has dark cherry bark outline and a checkerboard pattern of cat-tail grass (?), red and dark cherry bark. Entire pattern on basket is repeated on foot, and on lid. Knob on lid has only horizontal bands.