Basket
A flat-based, rectangular basket. Bundle coil construction of cedar root skin strips with red cherry bark tucked overlay (imbrication). The geometric design, in this instance representing butterflies, is one of several traditional motifs. This basket was collected in the Fraser River region, and at the time of receipt into the Museum (1927) was documented as being over 100 years old.
Collected by Edgar Dewdney in the late 19th or early 20th century.
Collected by Edgar Dewdney in the late 19th or early 20th century.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 70/1927/6
- Collection Class
- Containers
- Collection Area Region
- N
- Material
- cedar rootcherry bark
- Common Name
- basket
- Simple Name
- basket
- Production Town
- Fraser River region
- Production County
- British Columbia
- Production Country
- Canada
- Production Year High
- 1916
