Basket
Item number 2911/10 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
Item number 2911/10 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
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Rectangular basket with two handles. Basket is made of cedar slats with cedar root wrapping. The basket is decorated on the long sides with dark red imbrication in an inverted central triangle accompanied by two smaller triangles, and an inverted black and white triangle on each of the shorter sides. Dark red imbrication encircles the base. The basket is topped with several rows of looping in a loose diamond pattern, each culminating in a long, wrapped, semicircular handle.
Lutia Bidin was the mother of the donor, Rina Honderich. The Bidins had immigrated to Canada in the early 1900s, and moved from Deroche, BC to Woodfibre, BC c. 1918. Rina remembered women from Squamish canoeing over to Woodfibre to trade with her mother. Her mother would trade things like knitted socks, clothing and mats that she had made, for baskets that the Squamish women had made. Each would make a pile and when both sides agreed the exchange would take place. The baskets were used during the daily life of the family.
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Lutia Bidin was the mother of the donor, Rina Honderich. The Bidins had immigrated to Canada in the early 1900s, and moved from Deroche, BC to Woodfibre, BC c. 1918. Rina remembered women from Squamish canoeing over to Woodfibre to trade with her mother. Her mother would trade things like knitted socks, clothing and mats that she had made, for baskets that the Squamish women had made. Each would make a pile and when both sides agreed the exchange would take place. The baskets were used during the daily life of the family.
Rectangular basket with two handles. Basket is made of cedar slats with cedar root wrapping. The basket is decorated on the long sides with dark red imbrication in an inverted central triangle accompanied by two smaller triangles, and an inverted black and white triangle on each of the shorter sides. Dark red imbrication encircles the base. The basket is topped with several rows of looping in a loose diamond pattern, each culminating in a long, wrapped, semicircular handle.
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