- Date
- 1900 – 1930
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0377
- Description
- Plant fibre basket with bottom pointed inward, sides flare out slightly and contrast at top, patterned in three colours, the background is a shiny light beige material with dark, red brown fibres, which appear to be the outer surface of a tree bark, forming two zig-zag lines made up of a series o…
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- Title
- Basket
- Date
- 1900 – 1930
- Material
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 12.8 x 18.0 cm
- Description
- Plant fibre basket with bottom pointed inward, sides flare out slightly and contrast at top, patterned in three colours, the background is a shiny light beige material with dark, red brown fibres, which appear to be the outer surface of a tree bark, forming two zig-zag lines made up of a series of stepped parallelograms, the designs run around upper and lower portion of basket, vertical rib construction with two strands of stitching twisted around each rib.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- Indigenous
- basketry
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0377
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