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Flat-back coiled cedar root basket with lid; lid had a semicircular opening in the centre and is attached to the basket by two buckskin thongs. Simple coiled work with parallel splint base construction. Partial imbrication; thunderibrd pattern in black and white, red/black and white, red and black. Lid has wing patterns.
Large, roughly rectangular basket with a rounded shoulder and extended rim. Simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches); parallel splint base construction; overcast rim; imbrication and beading; canvas on exterior of bottom. Beading and imbrication; series of vertical bands in wide strips in black/red/bullrush. Background is totally beaded with red cherry in a "cluster of flies" pattern.
Birch bark basket with a rectangular base that tapers towards an oval-shaped top--basket is capped with a flat, inset lid. Birch bark is folded and stitched with strips of root (?), with a split twig rim overcast with a wide stitch at the top edge. Floral designs have been scratched onto the sides and lid, revealing a lighter shade of bark beneath. A strip of rawhide is strung from one side to the other to create a handle.
Small, circular birch bark basket with straight, vertical sides and a flat, fitted lid--basket and lid trimmed with sweet grass. Both lid and basket are covered in white quillwork, with the image of a chicken in the centre of the lid.
Elliptical, brown basket with a flat bottom and flared sides. Base is made from an oval-shaped birch bark panel with a white, green and red tulip-like design of porcupine quills in the centre. Two bands of coiled sweet grass with a single band of zigzagging open work between them comprise the sides; coiled sweet grass sides are all stitched with black thread.
Flared round coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with watch-spring base construction and a foot of two coiled rows. Fully imbricated with four alternating rows of checkerboard pattern in red and dark cherry bark, and cat-tail grass (?) with dark and red cherry bark. Foot fully imbricated with dark cherry bark on top row and red lower row.
Roughly rectangular basket with flaring sides and braided cording with a woven strap attached around the rim. Simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches); parallel splint base construction; line held on by rawhide; tump line woven with wool. Vertical striped design; each stripe is composed of stripes and checks in red/bullrush or black/bullrush. Design stops five rows before base. One filler of connected diamonds in red/bullrush. Tumpline has a blue zigzag line on green ground. Colour: tan.
Rectangular, tan-coloured basket that flares upward and outward. Simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches), parallel to watch-spring base construction, and three rawhide loops (with a bit of string), two at either upper corner of one long side and one in the middle of the upper portion of the other long side. Decorated with partial beading. Vertical striped design of alternating widths (three stitches wide and then two stitches wide). The pattern alternates in colour as follows: one red/three cat-tail/one red/two black/one red. The pattern stops ten rows before the bottom. There is one beaded line near the base.
Large cedar basket with a rectangular base, flaring sides and a loop of cord tied through the upper rim on one side. Simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches); parallel to watch-spring base construction; partial imbrication and beading. Vertical striped design: each stripe is three stitches wide; red line bordered by alternating bulrush and black or a black stripe bordered by alternating red and bullrush. Shaped fillers in various combinations of red, black and bulrush. Colour: tan.
Large flared, rectangular coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with parallel splint base construction, bifurcated overstitch at center. Upper half is fully imbricated in cat-tail grass with designs of mirror image 'c' shapes in black cherry bark. Black cherry bark stitches at intervals along rim. Lower portion has short vertical stripes of cat-tail grass divided in three and outlined in either red or dark cherry bark. Bottom has two rows of red cherry bark imbrication. Fibre through one side at rim.