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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

Trees Tray

Design Description

Tray has sets of trees, two per line, with treetops pointing in towards the centre of the tray. Trees alternate in colour between red and white, and black and white. Each tree line faces one of an opposite colour. Four lines of trees run along each length side of the basket, while one line of trees runs along each width side. Each corner of the tray has one tree, not two; plain bottom.

Length

34.5 cm

Width

49 cm

Height

4.44 cm

Shape and Use

Oblong shallow tray with flattened rim; flat bottom; no handles; 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; bear grass (sun-bleached white).

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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