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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

Diamond Tray with Looping

Design Description

Thick cross with squares in the middle; cross is quartered, split between black and red, with a small black square in the middle surrounded by a larger white square. each side of the basket has one cross design per side.

Length

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Width

36 cm

Height

9 cm

Shape and Use

Tray/bowl is diamond-shaped and semi-shallow with a flat bottom; entire top edge has looping; good condition; no apparent use or disuse.

Weave

Coiled bundled; imbricated; bottom is made of cedar slats.

Materials

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

Culture

N'laka'pamux, most likely North Bend or Lower Fraser Canyon; or because of slat bottom, possibly N'laka'pamux influence on the lower Fraser River peoples.

History

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

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