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Gathering Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.02.0001
- Date
- 1890 – 1920
- Material
- grass
- Catalogue Number
- 104.02.0001
- Description
- A low, wide, open-mouthed coiled basket made of woven grass. The basket has an openwork scalloped border around the mouth.
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- Title
- Gathering Basket
- Date
- 1890 – 1920
- Material
- grass
- Dimensions
- 11.0 cm
- Description
- A low, wide, open-mouthed coiled basket made of woven grass. The basket has an openwork scalloped border around the mouth.
- Subject
- Indigenous, Salish
- crafts
- weaving
- basketry
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.02.0001
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Storage Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.19.0021
- Date
- 1890 – 1900
- Material
- grass, reed
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0021
- Description
- A small rectangular basket with high sides. The basket is woven of natural coloured material with four coloured diamond shapes (white, red and black) on the side that have been made with dyed grass (an imbricated design).
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- Title
- Storage Basket
- Date
- 1890 – 1900
- Material
- grass, reed
- Dimensions
- 12.0 x 18.0 x 22.0 cm
- Description
- A small rectangular basket with high sides. The basket is woven of natural coloured material with four coloured diamond shapes (white, red and black) on the side that have been made with dyed grass (an imbricated design).
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0021
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Storage Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.19.0098
- Date
- 1890 – 1920
- Material
- wood, split willow shoots; plant, Devil’s Claw
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0098
- Description
- A coiled basket with flat base and straight, flaring sides, coils stitched with natural coloured split root ? with very dark brown design of same material. Design composed of three parallel lines running around the sides of the basket, along the top then slanting down, then along the bottom, then s…
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- Title
- Storage Basket
- Date
- 1890 – 1920
- Material
- wood, split willow shoots; plant, Devil’s Claw
- Dimensions
- 9.5 x 12.0 cm
- Description
- A coiled basket with flat base and straight, flaring sides, coils stitched with natural coloured split root ? with very dark brown design of same material. Design composed of three parallel lines running around the sides of the basket, along the top then slanting down, then along the bottom, then slanting up again, repeated around with the rectangular areas left between the path of the lines filled in as dark coloured parallelograms. The rim of the basket, the coil along the bottom, and one single coil in the base are dark. Design inside as well as outside, piece of knotted black thread through top coil on one side of basket, presumably for display at some time, very sturdy. Marks: round cardboard tag framed with metal attached with string to basket with string sealed to back of tag with black sealing wax with signet impression, tag handwritten in faded ink, "Fine Pima river ? Art 8913/50".
- Subject
- Indigenous, Pima
- households
- basketry
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0098
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Storage Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.19.0099
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- bark; skin; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0099
- Description
- A sturdy birchbark lidded pail like storage vessel made of a single piece of birchbark which has been folded to form a flat bottom, sloped in, but rectilinear, walls. Seamed and tied with pink dyed root fibre. A firm rim, probably of firm root or willow branch, bound in coiled pink and pale green r…
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- Title
- Storage Basket
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- bark; skin; wood
- Dimensions
- 22.6 x 22.5 x 34.5 cm
- Description
- A sturdy birchbark lidded pail like storage vessel made of a single piece of birchbark which has been folded to form a flat bottom, sloped in, but rectilinear, walls. Seamed and tied with pink dyed root fibre. A firm rim, probably of firm root or willow branch, bound in coiled pink and pale green root stalk, and two buckskin thongs, one at either end for carrying. The walls are drawn in and the folded up base seamed to them at either end, and the sides drawn in are stitched up to the vessel rim. A flat birchbark lid, attached to the vessel by a buckskin thong has two ties on its other side for sealing the vessel, and the lid is decorated with a conventional four petalled flower in pink strip fibre and four green leaves radiating from the centre.
- Subject
- Indigenous, Ojibway
- households
- basketry
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0099
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Storage Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.19.0108
- Date
- 1890 – 1930
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0108
- Description
- A large shallow basket with flat bottom and sides flaring outward. Coiled construction with stitches of split root around each coil stitched into the top of the coil below. Natural coloured background with imbricated design of wide dark parallograms forming 'V's sitting on a single band of dark coi…
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- Title
- Storage Basket
- Date
- 1890 – 1930
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 9.8 x 34.2 cm
- Description
- A large shallow basket with flat bottom and sides flaring outward. Coiled construction with stitches of split root around each coil stitched into the top of the coil below. Natural coloured background with imbricated design of wide dark parallograms forming 'V's sitting on a single band of dark coil, and joined each to the other at the top with a dark bar with oblique lines running off topped by a small parallogram of golden brown with a single motif of golden brown between each. Sturdy but flexible, small string loop one side. Note: minor stitch breakage revealing coils beneath.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- households
- basketry
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0108
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