Basket Item Number: D1.392 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Small rectangular coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with foot. Parallel splint base construction. Remains of loop work rim. Fully imbricated design of two diamonds on long sides, one in red cherry bark with cat-tail grass (?) and dark fibre center and the other reverse, inside a dark fibre square and inside a red cherry bark square, all on cat-tail grass (?) background. Short sides have "half arrow head" designs in two parallel vertical bands in dark fibre, red cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?). Rim is bordered in black cherry bark and looped border inn red cherry bark. Foot has three alternating solid rows in dark cherry bark, cat-tail grass (?), and cherry bark.