Trinket Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.0148
- Date
- 1920 – 1930
- Material
- grass
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0148
- Description
- A round, straight sided basket woven from natural coloured grass with dyed grass canoes alternating with birds in profile. The round, flat lid has same motif on top.
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- Title
- Trinket Basket
- Date
- 1920 – 1930
- Material
- grass
- Dimensions
- 5.0 cm
- Description
- A round, straight sided basket woven from natural coloured grass with dyed grass canoes alternating with birds in profile. The round, flat lid has same motif on top.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0148
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Trinket Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.0172
- Date
- 1940 – 1945
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0172
- Description
- Basket with lid, decorated with motif of people in canoe spearing killer whale, multi-coloured horizontal bands enclosing motif, concentric colour bands on lid.
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- Title
- Trinket Basket
- Date
- 1940 – 1945
- Material
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 7.2 cm
- Description
- Basket with lid, decorated with motif of people in canoe spearing killer whale, multi-coloured horizontal bands enclosing motif, concentric colour bands on lid.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0172
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Trinket Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.0178
- Date
- 1900 – 1930
- Material
- wood; grass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0178
- Description
- Cylindrical basket with flat cedar or spruce root woven base and tightly knotted grass basketry wall, indigo and red bands near base, and black zigzag line on yellow ground at middle of wall. Lid fits flushly over wide cedar root brim, and is similarly decorated with zigzag band on yellow ground an…
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- Title
- Trinket Basket
- Date
- 1900 – 1930
- Material
- wood; grass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 9.8 cm
- Description
- Cylindrical basket with flat cedar or spruce root woven base and tightly knotted grass basketry wall, indigo and red bands near base, and black zigzag line on yellow ground at middle of wall. Lid fits flushly over wide cedar root brim, and is similarly decorated with zigzag band on yellow ground and indigo centre.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0178
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Trinket Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.0267
- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0267
- Description
- A flat-based, straight-sided basket with flush, almost flat lid which fits securely over straight rim. Basket is formed on a lattice of cedar root or bark which is frayed out to form vertical ribs, and then a delicate tight bird-cage with twining technique is used to build up the basket. Pattern of…
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- Title
- Trinket Basket
- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 3.4 x 5.8 cm
- Description
- A flat-based, straight-sided basket with flush, almost flat lid which fits securely over straight rim. Basket is formed on a lattice of cedar root or bark which is frayed out to form vertical ribs, and then a delicate tight bird-cage with twining technique is used to build up the basket. Pattern of deep purple, almost black, ducks spaced around basket above two parallel lines in burgundy. Top of basket lid is decorated with a "whirlpool” design radiating from a red eye in red, yellow, and green, terminating in a red ring which notches into the natural light lid; green and white alternating stitches at the ring connecting top to wall of basket lid.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0267
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Trinket Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.0365
- Date
- 1955 – 1975
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0365
- Description
- A small round basket with flat bottom and fitted lid. Woven in bird-cage technique with natural coloured grasses as background and design of bright pink, purple, and green dye. Green birds and purple birds walk around side and three swirling crescents of purple, green and pink on the lid top. Lid f…
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- Title
- Trinket Basket
- Date
- 1955 – 1975
- Material
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 5.5 x 7.1 cm
- Description
- A small round basket with flat bottom and fitted lid. Woven in bird-cage technique with natural coloured grasses as background and design of bright pink, purple, and green dye. Green birds and purple birds walk around side and three swirling crescents of purple, green and pink on the lid top. Lid fits over lip on basket formed by incorporating a flat ring of wood into the rim. Checkerboard pattern discernible in weaving at centre of base of basket.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0365
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