Description

Red cotton lined cylindrical basket (bifurcated stitches) with loop work rim. Watch-spring base construction. Fully imbricated with cat-tail grass (?), including bottom. Design of outlined vertical rows of diagonal bands alternating in dark and red cherry bark. Base has alternating single continuous bands in red cherry bark, cat-tail grass (?), dark cherry bark, cat-tail grass (?), and repeated. Bands are split in 6 sections by two stitch vertical lines of opposing colours. Coiled looped border is beaded with cat-tail grass (?) and red cherry bark. A pedastal may have been attached to the base at one time.