Basket Item Number: D1.454 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Roughly rectangular, tan-coloured, coiled cedar root basket with flared sides, elongated watch-spring base construction, five rawhide loops and partial imbrication. Vertical striped "cluster of flies" design in cat-tail grass and black-dyed cherry bark, alternating with lines of red cherry bark and cat-tail grass. Rim is beaded in red.
History Of Use
Burden basket
Iconographic Meaning
"Cluster of Flies" design.
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
- D1.454
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- cedar root, cherry bark, cat-tail grass ?, dye and rawhide skin
- Manufacturing Technique
- coiled and imbricated
- Overall
- height 38.0 cm, width 51.0 cm, depth 42.0 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
- fair
- Current Location
- Case 33
- Accession Number
- 2004/0146