Basket Item Number: D1.455 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Basket constructed of coiled cedar root with an oblong watch-spring base construction. The basket has four sides that each taper towards the base and is decorated with partial imbrication in a horizontal band design. There is one band every sixth row with two stitches of cat-tail grass and two stitches of red cherry bark, this alternates with a row with the same pattern but in cat-tail grass and black-dyed cherry bark (nine rows in total).
History Of Use
Burden basket
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada
- Received from Unknown (Unknown)
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- D1.455
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- cedar root, cherry bark and cat-tail grass ?
- Manufacturing Technique
- coiled and imbricated
- Overall
- height 33.0 cm, width 57.2 cm, depth 43.8 cm
Who
- Culture
- Interior 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 32