Checkered Circles Basket
Photo by Fraser Spafford Ricci, after conservation.
Catalogue Number
993.21.06
Inventory Number
4315
Object Name
Checkered Circles Basket
Basketmaker
Unknown
Design Description
Circles or rounded diamonds, checkered red and black.
Length
-
Width
18.5 cm at top
Height
8.5 cm
Shape and Use
Round and relatively shallow bowl; good condition, no apparent use or disuse.
Weave
Coiled bundled; imbricated
Materials
Split cedar root; inner bark of the chokecherry, naturally red but dyed black
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.