berry basket Item Number: HV974.119.1 from the Burnaby Village Museum
Description
Trapezoidal shaped, coiled cedar root basket with cedar slat foundation. Finished with an overcast rim with root foundation. Design elements missing from one side of the basket. Steeply angled sides.Coast Salish: Squamish?
Interior Salish: Stl’atl’imx: Lil’wat?
Object History
The donor reported that the baskets were traded in the early 1920s for clothes by the donor's mother, who lived in North Vancouver. Her mother told her the "Capilano Indians" used to go door to door with their baskets in North Vancouver.Design elements missing from one side of the basket – possibly the side that would have rested against the owner’s back.Steeply angled sides keep berries from crushing those at bottom of basket. Work baskets have sides that are more rounded.Baskets like these were used with a woven tumpline (wool strap) that was worn against the forehead, while basket was carried on back.
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada
What
- Name
- berry basket
- Identification Number
- HV974.119.1
- Type of Item
- berry basket
Who
- Culture
- Stl'atl'imx
Where
- Holding Institution
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada