Basket Item Number: A2286 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Footed basket with a flat, rectangular base, flaring sides, and remnants of handles at either end. Simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches) with a slat foot and overcast splint rim. Continuous imbricated design of two horizontal bands of diamond figures in cat-tail, red and black cherry bark. Corners are slightly different. Beading in red along foot, and imbrication in red. Colour: tan.
History Of Use
Storage basket.
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada
- Received from Unknown (Unknown)
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- A2286
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- cat-tail grass ?, dye, cherry bark and cedar root
- Manufacturing Technique
- coiled and imbricated
- Overall
- height 37.0 cm, width 60.0 cm, depth 40.0 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
- Current Location
- Case 4