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Rectangular cedar root basket consisting of simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches); parallel slat foundation; total imbrication. Rawhide handles overcast with cedar root and beaded. Convex lid. The coiled work consists of nine rows of elongated (two slat) stitches; beaded basket; fully imbricated. Two rows of stepped pattern in crabapple and black cherry bark. Along the top are shapes in black and along bottom are the same shapes in red. The lid is convex and flanged, and decorated with partial beading. Alternating crabapple/black cherry creating six wide rows going width of lid. Hinges are rawhide. Rawhide tips on lid connect with loops on basket. Colour: tan.
Short, cylindrical basket (a) with a flat, fitted lid (b). Sides of basket are decorated with four pairs of three-man canoes in alternating red and black; lid features a circular, geometric design in black, purple and yellow. The base consists of plaiting with some coarse woven twining. The sides have wrapped twined weaving. Lid is held in place by a cedar flange attached around the upper rim of the basket.
Large canoe bailer with wooden handle. Outer bark remains on interior surface, but has been removed from both ends where the bark has been pleated. The pleated ends are secured to the wooden handle with strips of a different type of bark, which has more knots in it and is more reddish in colour. The pleated ends are tall and extend up past the wooden handle.
Cedar bark canoe bailer with wooden handle. The outer bark remains on the exterior surface. A straight incision has been made into the bark at each of the ends and most of the outer bark has been removed from the area above. The ends have been pleated and are secured to the wooden handle with string. Thin, wooden splints have been inserted into the bark along the edges of the bailer. There are three splints on each side, some of them have come through the bark and are visible on the inside. The bailer is slightly warped, with one end wider than the other.
Basketry hat with painted designs and a flared brim. The warps are made of red cedar bark and a small square of checkerboard plaiting is present at the top. The hat is woven of triangle sedge grass, using double strand twining. The warps are divided after several rows and the weaving becomes finer. Green-dyed grass has been used in several areas as an accent combined with the use of three strand twining. The painted design is of a male figure with hands upraised, flanked on either side by fish or whale figures. The paint is a dark green colour and badly faded. The rim of the hat is finished with dyed grass and a black yarn-like material. The hat has a cap-shaped liner woven into its interior. The liner is diagonally twined.
Small round coiled basket (with bifurcated stitches). Imbricated pattern of three alternating rows of crosses in dark cherry bark with cat-tail grass(?) centres, and red cherry bark with cat-tail grass(?) centres. Watch-spring base construction.
Urn shaped coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with looped border and short foot. Fully imbricated in rows of stepped diagonal bands, alternating in red and dark cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?). Foot has two rows of alternating bands of red and dark cherry bark with cat-tail grass (?) between. Watch-spring base construction. Basket similar to D1.372.
Oval coil basket (bifurcated stitches) with foot, and lid with flange. Elongated watch-spring base and lid construction. Imbricated floral patterns in two rows, part of top row finishing on lid. Flowers in dark and red cherry bark with cat-tail grass(?) on leaves. Foot has pyramid-like shapes with cat-tail grass(?) in centre. Lid has row of cross shapes in dark cherry bark with red cherry bark centres. Lid may have had a handle at one time(?). Short sides of basket had handles at one time.
Basket with plaited base. Sides are plaited in a twilled weave with crossed and braided (over splint) border at top. Twilled row separates side from base. No external decoration.
Plaited weaving (large plaiting on base, finer plaiting on sides) border: braided border with crossed warp, twining. No external decoration. Light green and white fibre cording strung around inside of basket's rim.