Storage Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.0597
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0597
- Description
- A coiled lidded basket with straight, slightly flaring sides with a geometric design created with imbrication of black and brown strips over lighter body. Lid fits tightly and has a brown and black woven “x” shape design around a coiled handle. Basket has a foot made of two coils of wicker.
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- Title
- Storage Basket
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 16.0 x 18.5 cm
- Description
- A coiled lidded basket with straight, slightly flaring sides with a geometric design created with imbrication of black and brown strips over lighter body. Lid fits tightly and has a brown and black woven “x” shape design around a coiled handle. Basket has a foot made of two coils of wicker.
- Subject
- indigenous
- basketry
- storage
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0597
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Storage Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.0598
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0598
- Description
- A small coiled basket with lid. Basket is woven from primarily light coloured fibres with a thick band of darker brown fibres around the circumference. Basket narrows to a small foot. The lid is woven in a spiral shape and sinks down slightly in centre. The base mirrors the lid but has a circle of …
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- Title
- Storage Basket
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 7.0 x 12.0 cm
- Description
- A small coiled basket with lid. Basket is woven from primarily light coloured fibres with a thick band of darker brown fibres around the circumference. Basket narrows to a small foot. The lid is woven in a spiral shape and sinks down slightly in centre. The base mirrors the lid but has a circle of darker weave.
- Subject
- indigenous
- basketry
- weaving
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0598
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Trinket Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.0476
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0476
- Description
- A miniature basket with flat bottom and slightly domed, fitted lid. Woven in bird-cage technique with natural coloured grasses as background and design of bright pink, purple, and green dye. Pink whale and green canoe with purple and pink figures in it around the sides and purple whales around a pi…
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- Title
- Trinket Basket
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 4.0 x 4.1 x 4.1 cm
- Description
- A miniature basket with flat bottom and slightly domed, fitted lid. Woven in bird-cage technique with natural coloured grasses as background and design of bright pink, purple, and green dye. Pink whale and green canoe with purple and pink figures in it around the sides and purple whales around a pink geometric design on the lid. 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
- 102.04.0476
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Trinket Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.0477
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0477
- Description
- A miniature basket with flat bottom and slightly domed, fitted lid. Woven in bird-cage technique with natural coloured grasses as background and design of bright pink, purple, and green dye. The sides have a design of 5 pink and purple figures in an orange canoe, purple fish, and a large purple and…
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- Title
- Trinket Basket
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 4.0 x 4.8 x 4.8 cm
- Description
- A miniature basket with flat bottom and slightly domed, fitted lid. Woven in bird-cage technique with natural coloured grasses as background and design of bright pink, purple, and green dye. The sides have a design of 5 pink and purple figures in an orange canoe, purple fish, and a large purple and orange bird. The lid has a green, yellow, pink geometric pattern around the edge and at the centre of the dome. 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. Found in a brown and blue cardboard box emblazoned with “the Quest” and accompanied by a card that reads “The Quest for handcrafts ltd. BANFF, ALBERTA.” on the outside and has “Nootka Tribe” handwritten inside.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0477
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