Carrying Basket Item Number: D1.290 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Rectangular coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with double looped border and rawhide handles. Parallel slat base construction with reinforcement stitches at the ends. Fully imbricated in cat-tail grass (?) with checkerboard diamonds in dark and red cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?), two on long sides, one on short sides. Black and red cherry bark vertical bands on all four corners, and two red cherry bark stitches at intervals near rim.
History Of Use
Carrying basket
Item History
- Made in Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada
- Owned by Mary G. Fyfe-Smith before June 15, 1951
- Received from Mary G. Fyfe-Smith (Donor) on June 15, 1951
What
- Name
- Carrying Basket
- Identification Number
- D1.290
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- cedar root, cat-tail grass ?, cherry bark, rawhide skin and dye
- Manufacturing Technique
- coiled and imbricated
- Overall
- height 9.5 cm, width 27.3 cm, depth 17.8 cm
Who
- Culture
- Interior Salish: Stl'atl'imx
- Previous Owner
- Mary G. Fyfe-Smith
- Received from
- Mary G. Fyfe-Smith (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada
When
- Ownership Date
- before June 15, 1951
- Acquisition Date
- on June 15, 1951
Other
- Item Classes
- basketry
- Condition
- fair
- Current Location
- Case 34