Basket Item Number: A3119 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Large rectangular coil basket with foot and divider with handle. Parallel splint base construction. Fully imbricated in grass with overall alternating "z" shapes in red and black cherry bark creating a diagonal effect. Foot is beaded with grass.
Iconographic Meaning
Beaded foot indicates it may have been made in Spuzzum, B.C.
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada
- Owned by W. Kaye Lamb
- Received from W. Kaye Lamb (Seller) and H. R. MacMillan (Funding source)
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- A3119
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- cedar root, cherry bark, cat-tail grass ? and dye
- Manufacturing Technique
- coiled and imbricated
- Overall
- height 17.5 cm, width 33.2 cm, depth 24.2 cm
Who
- Culture
- Interior Salish ?
- Previous Owner
- W. Kaye Lamb
- Received from
- W. Kaye Lamb (Seller) and H. R. MacMillan (Funding source)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
Other
- Item Classes
- basketry
- Condition
- fair
- Current Location
- Case 33
- Accession Number
- 2149/0003