Basket Item Number: D1.346 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Rounded coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with double looped border and short foot. Watch-spring base construction. Imbricated design of continuous upper and lower zigzag design which creates a diamond effect, outlined in red cherry bark, cat-tail grass(?), and dark cherry bark at center. Foot is beaded in two rows of cat-tail grass, which indicates this basket may have been made by a basket maker from Spuzzum, B.C.