Round basket with pattern and imagery. Basket is a light brown-yellow colour with images in darker brown. Narrow round base flares upward toward midpoint, lower half embellished with human figures standing square to front, arms hanging at sides, feet turned outwards. Figures are interspersed with large geometric designs resembling ‘C’s. Above midpoint basket recedes toward rim, with alternating open and closed square designs. Rim is short and flares slightly outward, and a dark weave edges the lip.

Dish shaped basket with rounded base, wide sloping wall and wrapped rim. Dark brown designs decorate both exterior and interior, with narrow colour blocks emanating off brown circle at centre, and surrounded by several layers of geometric line designs and colour blocks from the rim. Basket has a square where weaving starts, visible on underside.

Large round basket. Tightly woven willow wood basket has a small, flat base from which the wall flares upward toward the wide mouth. A rattlesnake pattern decorates the midpoint: rust coloured diamond shapes outlined in dark brown, with brown border lines running above and beneath.

Round, tightly woven willow wood basket. From a small, flat base the wall flares upward toward the wide mouth. A stepped line pattern in light brown repeats in encircling lines, visible on both exterior and interior, and small light blue beads are evenly placed just below the rim, incorporated into the weave.

The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection.

The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection.

Gift of Myrtle Dietsche Fisher.

Coiled basket is round in shape, with walls flaring from a small base toward its widest point at centre height. Shoulder slopes inward and neck stands straight. Dark brown images are woven into the basket, showing human figures interspersed with checkered squares.

The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection.

The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection.