Storage Basket
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- Date
- 1920 – 1950
- Material
- bark; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0104
- Description
- A fairly large round bottomed basket bowl of natural light coloured background, and red brown and black design worked in twining technique. Design around outside composed of red brown triangles and rectangles accented with black which form large flying wedges. Rim banded with red brown with final r…
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- Title
- Storage Basket
- Date
- 1920 – 1950
- Material
- bark; wood
- Dimensions
- 19.5 x 29.0 cm
- Description
- A fairly large round bottomed basket bowl of natural light coloured background, and red brown and black design worked in twining technique. Design around outside composed of red brown triangles and rectangles accented with black which form large flying wedges. Rim banded with red brown with final row of lip twined with brown over the teeth of the ribs sticking up. Bottom of basket encircled with red brown band is light brown with two bands of brown inside around centre. Two rows of twining in a twill pattern reinforces the base just inside the outer band. Inside of basket is brown with pattern indiscernible except as vague patches of light and darker colour.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- households
- basketry
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0104
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