Trinket Basket
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- Date
- 1900 β 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 anβ¦
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- Title
- Trinket Basket
- Date
- 1900 β 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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