Basket

Item number D1.316 a-b from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Basket base (a) and lid (b) with simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches), and a watch-spring coil base and lid construction. The lid has an indented flange, an overcast rim and handles coiled over buckskin. The lid is decorated with an eight-pointed star design in partial imbrication in bulrush/black with triangles in bulrush/red around the outer edge and four small elements around the centre. The body is decorated with vertical off-white bulrush bands with a black or red meander pattern interspersed with small red or black and off-white elements arranged vertically and alternating in colour.