Basket Item Number: D1.450 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Roughly rectangular basket with flaring sides and braided cording with a woven strap attached around the rim. Simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches); parallel splint base construction; line held on by rawhide; tump line woven with wool. Vertical striped design; each stripe is composed of stripes and checks in red/bullrush or black/bullrush. Design stops five rows before base. One filler of connected diamonds in red/bullrush. Tumpline has a blue zigzag line on green ground. Colour: tan.
History Of Use
Burden basket
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada
- Received from Unknown (Unknown)
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- D1.450
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- cedar root, cherry bark, cat-tail grass ?, fibre, dye and rawhide skin
- Manufacturing Technique
- coiled and imbricated
- Overall
- height 28.2 cm, width 44.5 cm, depth 30.5 cm
Who
- Culture
- Interior Salish: Nlaka'pamux
- 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 33