Shopping Basket with Handles
Photo by Fraser Spafford Ricci, after conservation.
Catalogue Number
993.21.15
Inventory Number
4324
Object Name
Shopping Basket with Handles
Basketmaker
Unknown
Design Description
Series of horizontal lines.
Length
11 cm
Width
31 cm
Height
18 cm
Shape and Use
"Shopping basket" with woven handles; rectangular and deep; handle is braided grass or cedar bark.
Weave
Twined weave.
Materials
Root or thick grass, dyed grasses, possible (cedar or other) bark and dyed bark; inner bark of cedar.
Culture
Unknown, probably Chilcotin, Lillooet or West Coast.
History
Donor: Mrs. Aida Freeman; Collected by her mother Mrs. Kathleen Edith Pearson Southwell.