Basket Item Number: D1.256 a-b from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Part (a) Round narrow coiled basket (bifurcated stitches), watch-spring base and lid construction. Imbricated design of cross motifs in red cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?) and black cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?). Alternate colour 'V' shape above each cross. Part (b) has lid with knob. Imbrication of tapered squares in black cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?), and red cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?) with dark cherry bark on bottom.