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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

Market or Shopping Basket with Handles

Design Description

Horizontal lines of various colours

Length

12.5 cm

Width

39 cm

Height

24 cm

Shape and Use

"Shopping basket" with macramé-type woven handles. According to Mrs. Freeman, she is the one who added the woven handles. Good condition; no apparent use or disuse.

Weave

Cedar slat base, coiled over with cedar root strips; base (bottom half) composed of solidly woven cedar slats; upper half of basket is a semi-open weave of cedar slats coiled over with cedar root; and an open weave of cedar strips between the slats; rim is bundled coils of cedar root; using two separate methods; rim itself uses three coils of bundled cedar root, while a W-shaped, coiled open weave is used up most of the basket; handles are short and heavy, of a macramé-type of weave, using some type of tan cotton string or bleached hemp, fibre, or possibly wool.

Materials

Split cedar root; split cedar slats; dyed grasses; fibre cord (possibly hemp, wool, or other fibres).

Culture

Possibly N'laka'pamux, but most likely Coast Salish, using coiling techniques learned from the N'laka'pamux.

History

Used by Mrs. Freemanin for shopping in Vancouver . Donor: Mrs. Aida Freeman; collected by her mother Mrs. Kathleen Edith Pearson Southwell.

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