Storage Basket
Item number A5084 a-b from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
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Description
Red and tan basket (part a) with a lid (part b) in interlocking coiled work (bifurcated stitches). Parallel slat base construction. Flange on the basket body (part a). Lid (part b) with a splint around the edge. Basket (part a) has handles and is decorated with both beading and imbrication. Sides of the basket (part a) have partial imbrication with vertical panels in black cherry bark and canary grass (two different patterns of pyramid and half-pyramid form). Lid (part b)is beaded (3:1), and rows alternate in black-dyed cherry bark and in canary grass (sides of lid are in continuation with sides of basket). Has skin ties.
Iconographic Meaning
This basket is decorated with different versions of the arrowhead design.
Narrative
This basket, identified as Lillooet (Stl'atl'imx) by Rena Point Bolton, was collected along the Fraser River. Ethnographic literature on this area and historical accounts in the Fort Langley Journals note that the Lillooet or Stl'atl'imx people inhabited the area north of the Fort. The shape of this basket is typical of the Lillooet examples discussed in Haeberlin and Teit's 1928 volume on Coiled Basketry in British Columbia.
Cultural Context
According to Rena Point Bolton this basket was likely made for a woman to use, a daughter or granddaughter. This is indicated by the strong use of red on the edges, since red is a colour which is used on gifts to female relatives and is indicative of love.
Item History
- Made in 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
- Storage Basket
- Identification Number
- A5084 a-b
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- skin, canary grass, dye, cherry bark and cedar root
- Manufacturing Technique
- coiled and imbricated
- Overall
- height 32.3 cm, width 69.0 cm, depth 32.1 cm
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
Who
- Culture
- Interior Salish: Stl'atl'imx
- Previous Owner
- Anna J. Beecher and Frederick L. Beecher
- Received from
- Frederick L. Beecher (Donor)
When
- Creation Date
- before 1911
- Collection Date
- between 1885 and 1911
- Ownership Date
- before 1952
- Acquisition Date
- during 1952
Other
- Item Classes
- basketry
- Condition
- fair
- Current Location
- Case 34
- Accession Number
- 2004/0043 a-b
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