Basket
Item number A2269 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
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Description
Coiled cedar root basket with elongated watch-spring base construction and braided border. Decorated with beading and partial imbrication; four bands of diamond checkerboard figures (each with centre rectangle in a different colour from each of the outer rectangles). Red exterior with cat-tail and black centre or vice versa; they are mostly arranged so that they are diagonally similar except for top row. Colour: tan.
History Of Use
Burden basket
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada
- Received from Unknown (Unknown)
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- A2269
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- dye, cherry bark, cat-tail grass ? and cedar root
- Manufacturing Technique
- coiled and imbricated
- Overall
- height 33.5 cm, width 48.0 cm, depth 38.0 cm
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
Who
- Culture
- Interior Salish
- Received from
- Unknown (Unknown)
Other
- Item Classes
- basketry
- Condition
- fair
- Current Location
- Case 32
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