Large woven tray with steep walls and flat base. Decorated with four chequered bands decreasing in size towards centre of basket. Top band has four pronged squares hanging at equal intervals around basket.

Low, wide, dished tray for sifting acorn flour. Under-structure is made of willow, with tightly wrapped root. Imbrication is a dark brown colour in a lizard track design, spiraling from the rim in toward the centre or base on both interior and exterior of the tray.

Rectangular wooden tray with short side walls, attached to its base by screws. Walls are straight on the outside and sloped on the interior toward the tray base. The interior base of the tray is decorated with a central incised image of a whale inside a circle, with minimal decoration in blue, black and red. To each side of the circle are similar smaller whales, four in total. The interior side walls of the tray have stylized images of painted whale eyes and fins. Rounded handles are attached to each end wall with screws. On the bottom of the tray is written in red ink, “Carved by Charles Gladstone Skidegate Mission BC 1949”

Gift of Mary Ann Krotzer

Gift of Mary Ann Krotzer

The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection.

Museum Purchase: Helen Thurston Ayer Fund.

THE SHUSWAP. TEIT, JAMES MEMOIRS, 4, 1909

Woven tray; cedar root, imbricated cherry bark.