Storage Basket
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- Date
- 1880 – 1920
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0101
- Description
- Conical shaped basket with flat base, coil constructed from plant fibre bundles and is exposed in several places on rim where stitching has deteriorated. Stitching is plant fibre material in three natural colours, most of the basket is beige, two rows of reddish wood coloured diamonds, each approx.…
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- Title
- Storage Basket
- Date
- 1880 – 1920
- Material
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 23.5 x 41.0 cm
- Description
- Conical shaped basket with flat base, coil constructed from plant fibre bundles and is exposed in several places on rim where stitching has deteriorated. Stitching is plant fibre material in three natural colours, most of the basket is beige, two rows of reddish wood coloured diamonds, each approx.4 cm. high x 3 cm. wide, are outlined in a continous black zig-zag pattern, the two rows of decoration are about 5 cm. apart, the top row is close to the rim, rim is fastened off in a simple coil sewing. A small hole (.70 cm.) in center bottom where coil begins.
- Subject
- Indigenous, Mono
- households
- basketry
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0101
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