Burden Basket Item Number: A5026 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Rectangular flared coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with parallel slat base construction. Skin loop and tie on one side, two loops and long tie on other side. Upper half of basket is beaded on three sides with staggered rows of cat-tail grass (?), wtih black cherry bark rows. Lower half of basket has "m" shaped pattern in red and black cherry bark with cat-tail grass on three sides. Fourth side has single rows of cat-tail grass (?) divided by three vertical bands in dark and red cherry bark and cat-tail grass. Rim is imbricated in cat-tail grass (?), with intervals of double stitch red or dark cherry bark.
History Of Use
Burden basket
Item History
- Made by Amelia Jim ? (Maker) in Mount Currie, British Columbia, Canada ? or Pemberton, British Columbia, Canada ? before 1911
- Collected 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
- Burden Basket
- Identification Number
- A5026
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- cat-tail grass ?, deer skin ?, dye, cherry bark and cedar root
- Manufacturing Technique
- coiled and imbricated
- Overall
- height 21.0 cm, width 33.0 cm, depth 27.0 cm
Who
- Culture
- Interior Salish: Stl'atl'imx
- Creator
- Amelia Jim ? (Maker)
- 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
- Mount Currie, British Columbia, Canada ? or Pemberton, British Columbia, Canada ?
When
- Creation Date
- before 1911
- Collection Date
- between 1885 and 1911
- Ownership Date
- before 1952
- Acquisition Date
- during 1952
Other
- Item Classes
- basketry
- Condition
- good
- Current Location
- Case 34
- Accession Number
- 2004/0020