Basket Item Number: D1.371 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Rectangular slightly flared coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with coil handle and foot. Parallel slate base construction. Fully imbricated in cat-tail grass (?) and rows of horizontal zigzag bands alternating in red and black cherry bark. Foot has 2 rows of three stitch bands in red cherry bark, cat-tail grass (?), and dark cherry bark. Coil cedar splint handle attached with buckskin thongs.