The cedar bark is dyed.

The dye is yellow.

The cedar bark is black.

The cedar bark is dyed and black.

From card: "Round foundation, flat coil bottom bulging side body; leather thongs about top. "Fillers on side of basket" illus. in BAE 41st AR, fig. 63, p. 276. Illus. in BAE 41st AR, Pl. 32a, p. 484. In BAE 41st AR Pl. 32a, Haeberlin et al. attribute this basket to the Thompson Indians. - J. R. (4/85)."Note re provenience: Emmons in accession file identifies the basket as collected (probably purchased) in Victoria, B.C. and identifies it as Klikitat. Anthropology catalogue ledger book and catalogue card identify as Cowlitz or Skokomish, but in 1985 someone with initials "J.R." notes on the card that the basket was published as Thompson Indian in the BAE 41st Annual Report.

PUBLICATION: MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, S.I. PRESS, 1985, P. 144. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, 1987-89.FROM CARD: #2614 - COWLITZ TYPE BASKET. SEE USNM A.R. 1902, ABORIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY, O.T. MASON, PAGE 432. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 9, PG. 511." From second card: "[Identified as] Cowlitz? *Based on comparision with other specimens. *See USNM A.R. 1902, Aboriginal American Basketry, O.T. Mason, pg. 432. Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 7, Northwest Coast, Fig. 9, pg. 511." ILLUS. FIG. 10, P. 48 AND DISCUSSED P. 47 OF "SALISH BASKETS FROM THE WILKES EXPEDITION" BY CAROLYN J. MARR, AMERICAN INDIAN ART MAGAZINE, VOL. 9, NO. 3, 1984 AND ID THERE AS COILED OVAL BASKET, COWLITZ, IMBRICATED DESIGN IN FOUR FIELDS. LID IS MISSING. PROBABLY COLLECTED FROM COWLITZ ON A TRIP BETWEEN PUGET SOUND AND THE COLUMBIA RIVER IN JUNE 1841.Illus. Fig. 9.10, p. 208 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 Cowlitz coiled and imbricated basket of cedar root, bear grass, and horsetail root. "The shape and use of four design fields mark it as an early Cowlitz style."

COILED BASKET WITH IMBRICATION AND BEADING MADE OF CEDAR ROOT, BEARGRASS AND HORSETAIL ROOT. THE RIM CONSTRUCTION IS FALSE BRAID, BOTTOM CONSTRUCTION IS MEANDER COIL WITH BEADING OF BEARGRASS NEAR THE EDGE. THE RIM DESIGN CONSISTS OF SMALL BLACK, SINGLE AND STACKED SQUARES OVER WHITE. THE BODY DESIGN CONSISTS OF A "SNAKE" MOTIF OF TWO BLACK LINES ON FULLY IMBRICATED WHITE BACKGROUND. THERE ARE FOUR BROKEN LEATHER LOOPS ATTACHED TO THE RIM. PUBLICATION: "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," BY VIOLA & MARGOLIS, S.I. PRESS, 1985, P. 144. U.S.N.M. ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1902, ABORIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY, OTIS MASON, FIG. 157, P. 432. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. A NOTE IN THE ORIGINAL S.I. LEDGER READS, "BASKET USED FOR COOKING." ILLUS. FIG. 9, P. 48 AND DISCUSSED P. 47 IN "SALISH BASKETS FROM THE WILKES EXPEDITION" BY CAROLYN J. MARR, AMERICAN INDIAN ART MAGAZINE, VOL. 9, NO. 3, 1984 AND ID THERE AS COILED BERRY BASKET, COWLITZ?, TOTAL IMBRICATION AND WHITE BACKGROUND WITH ZIGZAG PATTERNS CALLED "SNAKE" DESIGN BY MANY OF THE SALISH. PROBABLY COLLECTED FROM COWLITZ ON A TRIP BETWEEN PUGET SOUND AND THE COLUMBIA RIVER IN JUNE 1841.