Basket Item Number: A8866 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Cylindrical flared coiled cedar root basket (bifurcated stitches) with foot. Watch-spring base construction, slat body construction. Fully imbricated in cat-tail grass (?) with diagonal stepped design of alternating rows of black and red triangles with a diagonal line of cat-tail grass (?) unning the full length of each band. Foot is beaded in cherry bark. Small fibre loop attatched to one side, broken from other side. Looped border atop rim at one time.
Narrative
Collected by Hunter C. Lewis.
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada
- Collected during 1949
- Owned by Hunter C. Lewis and Mrs. Hunter C. Lewis before June 1965
- Received from Hunter C. Lewis (Donor) and Mrs. Hunter C. Lewis (Donor) during June 1965
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- A8866
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- dye, cat-tail grass ?, cherry bark, cedar root and fibre
- Manufacturing Technique
- coiled and imbricated
- Overall
- height 15.0 cm, diameter 24.7 cm
Who
- Culture
- Interior Salish ?
- Previous Owner
- Hunter C. Lewis and Mrs. Hunter C. Lewis
- Received from
- Hunter C. Lewis (Donor) and Mrs. Hunter C. Lewis (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
When
- Collection Date
- during 1949
- Ownership Date
- before June 1965
- Acquisition Date
- during June 1965
Other
- Item Classes
- basketry
- Condition
- fair
- Accession Number
- 0131/0014