Trinket Basket
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- 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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