Basket Item Number: Nb11.347 a-b from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Rounded, convex, jar-shaped, miniature basket (a) with raised, knobbed lid (b). At base of lid is reinforced cedar bark hoop. Basket has cedar bark checker work foundation surrounded by grass twining. Natural colour. Three equidistant bands with small scale geometric design. At the rim and base of basket is a faded purple and yellow band. At mid-point is a green and orange band with diamond-like design. Two bands of colour on lid--one of faded purple and yellow and another of green and orange--similar to the mid-point band on the basket.
History Of Use
Before European contact Nuu-chah-nulth baskets were predominately undecorated, all-purpose containers. Checkerwork bags and pouches were used for whaling and fishing gear. Finely woven baskets held liquids and were used to boil food by adding heated stones. By the mid-19th century, when missions and trading posts were well established on the Northwest Coast, the manufacture of functional basketry declined and the Nuu-chah-nulth began to make small decorated 'fancy' baskets for sale. These baskets are characterized by realistic and less frequently, geometric designs. Up to the 1890's Nuu-chah-nulth basketry is open wrapped twined, checkerwork and plain twilled. After this date most are close wrapped twined.
Cultural Context
made for sale
Item History
- Made in Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada before 1976
- Collected during 1900
- Owned by Dorothy Ladner and Edna Ladner before April 12, 1976
- Received from Dorothy Ladner (Donor) and Edna Ladner (Donor) on April 12, 1976
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- Nb11.347 a-b
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- aniline dye ?, cedar bark, bear grass ? and grass
- Manufacturing Technique
- wrapped twined, plaited and twined
- Overall
- height 7.0 cm, diameter 5.5 cm
Who
- Culture
- Nuu-chah-nulth
- Previous Owner
- Dorothy Ladner and Edna Ladner
- Received from
- Dorothy Ladner (Donor) and Edna Ladner (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
When
- Creation Date
- before 1976
- Collection Date
- during 1900
- Ownership Date
- before April 12, 1976
- Acquisition Date
- on April 12, 1976
Other
- Item Classes
- basketry
- Condition
- good
- Accession Number
- 0299/0029