FROM CARD: "SOFT BASKET, OLD WEAVING. MADE OF ? OVERLAID WITH GRASS STRIPS AND STRIPS OF DYED. IT IS SAID ON PUGET SOUND THAT ONLY TWO OLD SKOKOMISH WEAVERS ARE LEFT, HENCE BASKETS ARE VALUABLE."

LARGE BASKET. OLD PHOTOGRAPHS SHOW ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. PUBLICATION: USNM ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1902, ABORIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY, OTIS MASON, PL. 164, P. 436. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.ILLUS. FIG. 2, P. 45 AND DISCUSSED P. 46 IN "SALISH BASKETS FROM THE WILKES EXPEDITION" BY CAROLYN J. MARR, AMERICAN INDIAN ART MAGAZINE, VOL. 9, NO. 3, 1984, AND ID THERE AS TWANA SOFT-TWINED BASKET, CALLED T'KAYAS, USED FOR HOUSEHOLD STORAGE OF BLANKETS AND CLOTHING, LOOPS OF TWISTED CEDAR ROOTS AT RIM FOR TYING BASKET SHUT, DECORATED IN OVERLAY OF CEDAR BARK AND BEAR GRASS WITH DESIGNS OF DOGS IN RIM AREA AND STARFISH IN MAIN FIELD, A SMALL BIRD FIGURE (HORNED GREBE) MARKS THE SEAM AT THE RIM. Illus. Fig. 9.9, p. 207 in Brotherton, Barbara. 2008. S'abadeb = The gifts : Pacific Coast Salish arts and artists. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum in association with University of Washington Press. Figure caption identifies as Twana, Skokomish, early 19th century, cattail leaves, bear grass, cedar bark, soft twined basket. Margaret Mathewson concurs with Skokomish attribution.

The cedar bark is natural and black.

The raffia is red and blue.

The raffia is red.

The raffia is dye, red, black, and green.

The raffia is dye, red, green, and blue.