Trinket Basket
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- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0477
- 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. The sides have a design of 5 pink and purple figures in an orange canoe, purple fish, and a large purple and…
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- Title
- Trinket Basket
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 4.0 x 4.8 x 4.8 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. The sides have a design of 5 pink and purple figures in an orange canoe, purple fish, and a large purple and orange bird. The lid has a green, yellow, pink geometric pattern around the edge and at the centre of the dome. 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. Found in a brown and blue cardboard box emblazoned with “the Quest” and accompanied by a card that reads “The Quest for handcrafts ltd. BANFF, ALBERTA.” on the outside and has “Nootka Tribe” handwritten inside.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0477
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