Burden Basket Item Number: D1.375 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Rectangular flared coiled basket (bifurcated stitches). Parallel slat base construction with oblique bifurcated reinforcement stitches. Upper half of basket fully imbricated in cat-tail grass (?), with geometric shape, outlined in dark cherry bark with red cherry bark interior outline, and two vertical lines in ends. Rim has intervals of dark cherry bark stitches. Beaded vertical parallel bands alternating in dark cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?).
History Of Use
Burden basket
Iconographic Meaning
This basket features the stone hammer design on its body and cluster of flies near its base.
Narrative
The name of the design used on this basket was given as tsetsutsin by basket makers from Mount Currie.
Item History
- Made by Cecilia Dan ? (Maker) in Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada before 1950
- Received from Unknown (Unknown)
What
- Name
- Burden Basket
- Identification Number
- D1.375
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- cedar root, cat-tail grass ?, cherry bark, fibre and dye
- Manufacturing Technique
- coiled and imbricated
- Overall
- height 19.0 cm, width 29.3 cm, depth 22.0 cm
Who
- Culture
- Interior Salish: Stl'atl'imx
- Creator
- Cecilia Dan ? (Maker)
- Received from
- Unknown (Unknown)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada
When
- Creation Date
- before 1950
Other
- Item Classes
- basketry
- Condition
- poor
- Current Location
- Case 34