Basket Item Number: D1.359 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Oval coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with attached lid. Parallel slat base and lid construction, rawhide ties and hinges, bound cotton handle. Fully imbricated in cat-tail grass (?), with design of geometric wave pattern, alternating in rows of red and dark cherry bark. Rim of lid is imbricated in two rows of cat-tail grass with intervals of cherry bark stitches, forming a pyramid. Parallel rows of beaded cat-tail grass (?) over surface of lid.
History Of Use
Storage basket.
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada
- Collected between 1885 and 1911
- Owned by Anna J. Beecher
- Owned by Frederick L. Beecher before 1952
- Received from Frederick L. Beecher (Donor) during 1952
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- D1.359
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- cedar root, cherry bark, cat-tail grass ?, dye, rawhide skin and cotton fibre
- Manufacturing Technique
- coiled and imbricated
- Overall
- height 13.1 cm, width 29.5 cm, depth 17.0 cm
Who
- Culture
- Interior Salish: Nlaka'pamux
- Previous Owner
- Anna J. Beecher and Frederick L. Beecher
- Received from
- Frederick L. Beecher (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
When
- Collection Date
- between 1885 and 1911
- Ownership Date
- before 1952
- Acquisition Date
- during 1952
Other
- Item Classes
- basketry
- Condition
- good
- Accession Number
- 2004/0131