Basket Item Number: D1.298 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Rectangular coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with foot and attached lid. Parallel splint base and lid construction. Imbricated design of five rows of parallel bands in alternating colours of red and dark cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?). Foot has one solid band of cherry bark, a band alternating in red and dark cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?), and what remains of a bottom row of dark cherry bark. Lid has four rows of diamonds in dark cherry bark outline, cat-tail grass (?) and dark cherry bark centers. The two rows at rim are half diamonds. String ties through lid and rim of basket.
History Of Use
Storage basket.
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada
- Collected in Thompson River, British Columbia, Canada between 1885 and 1911
- Owned by Anna J. Beecher
- Owned by Frederick L. Beecher before 1952
- Received from Frederick L. Beecher (Donor) during 1952
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- D1.298
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- cedar root, cat-tail grass ?, cherry bark, fibre and dye
- Manufacturing Technique
- coiled and imbricated
- Overall
- height 16.3 cm, width 27.5 cm, depth 17.3 cm
Who
- Culture
- Interior Salish: Nlaka'pamux
- Previous Owner
- Anna J. Beecher and Frederick L. Beecher
- Received from
- Frederick L. Beecher (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
- Collected in
- Thompson River, British Columbia, Canada
When
- Collection Date
- between 1885 and 1911
- Ownership Date
- before 1952
- Acquisition Date
- during 1952
Other
- Item Classes
- basketry
- Condition
- good
- Accession Number
- 2004/0115