Storage Basket
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- Date
- 1875 – 1900
- Material
- bark; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0095
- Description
- A rectangular basket of coiled construction larger at mouth than at base. Natural brown cedar bark stitching over coils with double rows of imbrication every fourth and fifth coil of black, red brown and light coloured alternating bands. Small black and white imbricated up side down triangle in cen…
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- Title
- Storage Basket
- Date
- 1875 – 1900
- Material
- bark; fibre
- Dimensions
- 12.2 x 18.0 x 22.4 cm
- Description
- A rectangular basket of coiled construction larger at mouth than at base. Natural brown cedar bark stitching over coils with double rows of imbrication every fourth and fifth coil of black, red brown and light coloured alternating bands. Small black and white imbricated up side down triangle in centre below imbricated bands at bottom on each side. Suspended by four pieces at twisted cotton ? twine knotted through stitching at each corner, approx. 18 cm. and knotted together at top. Note: bark wrapping top broken in seven places. Marks: paper sticker on bottom, "Thompson River Indian/British Columbia".
- Subject
- Indigenous
- households
- Edith Morse Robb
- basketry
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0095
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