Trinket Basket
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- Date
- 1955 â 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 fâŚ
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- Title
- Trinket Basket
- Date
- 1955 â 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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