Basketry storage container Item Number: E432844-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
Woven basket with some external vertical elements colored red, purple (?) blue/black (?) and green. Several areas of loss, particularly around the rim and rim is deformed.Typed note inside basket says: "24. Storage Basketry Container. Tribe: Nootka-Makah Vancouver Island, B.C. and Northwest Washington State. Design: red-green-blue-black-purple stripes woven on a natural ground; of plain plaited cedar bark. Size: 6 1/2 h." 13"x10" sq. Circa: 1915. Condition: v. poor."
Item History
- Made in Washington, USA and British Columbia, Canada
- Collected by Edward S. Curtis in Washington, USA and British Columbia, Canada between 1887 and 1930
- Received on August 30, 2012
What
- Name
- Basketry storage container
- Identification Number
- E432844-0
- Type of Item
- basket
- Overall
- length 39.0 cm, width 18.0 cm, height 18.0 cm
Who
- Culture
- Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) ? or Makah ?
- Field Collector
- Edward S. Curtis
- Received from
- “James "Jim" H. Graybill” ?
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Washington, USA and British Columbia, Canada
- Collected in
- Washington, USA and British Columbia, Canada
When
- Collection Date
- between 1887 and 1930
- Acquisition Date
- on August 30, 2012
Other
- Accession Number
- 2058745