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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

Wave Bowl with Handles

Design Description

Small bowl has design similar to succeeding waves, or else a series of head shapes in a marching formation. Waves or heads face left, and are outlined with one top line of solid black, shadowed with one bottom line of solid red; eight stars on the inside bottom, alternating black & red, with white centres.

Length

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Width

27 cm

Height

24 cm

Shape and Use

"Carrying" or "storage" basket; semi-deep bowl with a high-arching stiff handle, which splits off near the bowl's rim; good condition; no apparent use or disuse.

Weave

Coiled bundled; imbricated; braided weave on top rim.

Materials

Split cedar root; inner bark of the chokecherry (naturally red, 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.

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