Basket Item Number: Nd639 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Coiled basket with bifurcated stitches; parallel splint base construction fully beaded and imbricated. The design consists of imbricated red squares alternating with beaded bullrush squares (checkerboard); the red squares become elongated near rim. Six rawhide ties. Colour: tan.
History Of Use
Burden basket. Tsilhqot’in weavers made coiled cedar-root baskets imbricated with cat-tail grass and cherry bark (for the darker designs). Animals, figures and geometric designs in bands are worked into their sometimes playful designs in bullrush and cherry bark on cedar root. Baskets were used extensively in communities for carrying, storage and cooking and for trade and sale to non-natives. Today baskets continue to be valued in First Nations communities for their cultural importance and continue to be used as gifts, in trade and are made for sale.
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada before 1900
- Collected during 1900
- Owned by Margaret L. Buttimer
- Owned by Alfred J. Buttimer before 1932
- Received from Alfred J. Buttimer (Donor) during 1932
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- Nd639
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- cedar wood, rawhide skin, cherry bark, cat-tail grass ?, cedar root and red willow bark ?
- Manufacturing Technique
- coiled and imbricated
- Overall
- height 22.1 cm, width 31.1 cm, depth 23.7 cm
Who
- Culture
- Tsilhqot'in
- Previous Owner
- Margaret L. Buttimer and Alfred J. Buttimer
- Received from
- Alfred J. Buttimer (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
When
- Creation Date
- before 1900
- Collection Date
- during 1900
- Ownership Date
- before 1932
- Acquisition Date
- during 1932
Other
- Item Classes
- basketry
- Condition
- good
- Accession Number
- 2003/0127