Basket Item Number: A3501 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Round flared coiled basket with foot. Watch-spring base construction. Imbricated design of large diamond figures in dark cherry bark, cat-tail grass (?) and red cherry bark at center, then the next is a reverse of the colour configuration. Foot has three rows of cat-tail grass (?) beading, which suggests it may have been made by a basket maker from Spuzzum, B.C. Evidence of a looped border at one time.