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• Introduction
• The N'laka'pamux Territory
• About N'laka'pamux Basketry
  and the work of James Alexander Teit (1864-1922)
• The Pearson Basket Collection at the LCM
  • The Baskets
  • The Collection
• N'laka'pamux Basketry Making Today
• Conservation of the Baskets
• N'laka'pamux Basket Makers
• Glossary of Terms
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgements

Beaded Necklace Basket

Design Description

Necklace design; strings are one line of red imbrication; beads are two rows of five black and white sections, alternating in a checkerboard pattern. Each necklace has three sections of beads on the length side, and two in each width side. Each necklace also has, at each basket corner, a small bead series of six sections, alternating black and white. There are eight necklaces top to bottom.

Length

39 cm

Width

64 cm

Height

37.5 cm

Shape and Use

Burden or "berry basket;" rectangular and deep; flared from bottom to top. One hide handle on each width-side near top. Good condition; no apparent use or disuse.

Weave

Coiled bundled; imbricated

Materials

Split cedar root; inner bark of the chokecherry, naturally red, dyed black; bear grass, sun-bleached white, deer hide.

Culture

N'laka'pamux, most likely North Bend or Lower Fraser Canyon.

History

Donor: Mrs. Aida Freeman; collected by her mother Mrs. Kathleen Edith Pearson Southwell.

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