Basket Item Number: A2267 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Simple tan coiled work basket with bifurcated stitches and parallel slat base with reinforcement stitches along one edge only. Overcast rim is fully beaded. Two rows of beading per coiled row, each in the same colour, black/bullrush/ red/bullrush.
History Of Use
Work basket
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada
- Received from Unknown (Unknown)
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- A2267
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- cat-tail grass ?, dye, cherry bark and cedar root
- Manufacturing Technique
- coiled and imbricated
- Overall
- height 10.8 cm, width 24.1 cm, depth 12.1 cm
Who
- Culture
- Coast Salish
- Received from
- Unknown (Unknown)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
Other
- Item Classes
- basketry
- Condition
- fair