Storage Basket
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- Date
- 1880 – 1900
- Material
- grass; hair; skin
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0092
- Description
- A flat long rectangular bag woven with twisted corn husks twined over a hemp warp with coarser, linen? twined area, 3 cm, at bottom and in band at top alternating with lines of corn husk pattern. Overlaid design of red, pink and white wool triangles outlined in green and yellow on one side, and li…
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- Title
- Storage Basket
- Date
- 1880 – 1900
- Material
- grass; hair; skin
- Dimensions
- 30.0 x 44.0 cm
- Description
- A flat long rectangular bag woven with twisted corn husks twined over a hemp warp with coarser, linen? twined area, 3 cm, at bottom and in band at top alternating with lines of corn husk pattern. Overlaid design of red, pink and white wool triangles outlined in green and yellow on one side, and light coloured pinch waisted shapes outlined in red and pink on other side, a buckskin thong is attached along opening at top in a series of small loops knotted though the weaving.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0092
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