The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection. Collected: Elizabeth Cole Butler

The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection. Collected: Elizabeth Cole Butler

The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection. Collected: Elizabeth Cole Butler

Gift of Richard W. Sundeleaf in memory of his mother, Gracia Myrtle Sundeleaf, and his granddaughter, Kirsten Mary Wright.

Museum Expedition 1905, Museum Collection Fund

Museum Expedition 1905, Museum Collection Fund

These child's moccasins have the old style seam work typical of Cree. The beads go in two different directions, unusual. They have little trail dusters and are made all in one piece with one seam along the side.

Rectangular coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with rounded shoulder with separate lid (b) and tall curved handle (now separate) that attached at the sides (c). Red, black and cream cherry bark decoration includes a floral design on the sides of the basket (one at each end and two on each side), and V-shapes in alternating red and black around the rim and on the lid surface. The lid has two parallel rectangular openings in the centre.

Part (a) Rectangular coiled storage basket (bifurcated stitches) with lid, part (b). Parallel base construction and elongated watch-spring coiled lid construction. Fully imbricated with cat-tail grass (?) and vertical zig-zag rows alternating in red and dark cherry bark. Two coil handles over rawhide on each short side. Basket has inner and outer rim. Row of solid cherry bark imbrication at outer rim and at base. Lid also fully imbricated with cat-tail grass(?) and has two continuous horizontal zig-zag rows of dark cherry bark near rim and red cherry bark above. Rectangular outlines in dark cherry bark around center, with red cherry bark filled in. Coil handle is missing at center.

Small rectangular cedar root basket. Imbrication all the way around the sides is of a light coloured grass, with red and dark brown cherry bark creating a pattern of double diamonds, bordered with vertical bands in red and dark brown. Green thread is stitched around basket near rim.