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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

Thunderbird Bowl

Design Description

Birds or thunderbirds or perhaps loons; series of simply wrought yet striking bird designs. Each bird consists of a black outline, with triangular wings, pointed downward; black shoulder line extends outwards from the black head horizontally, then black outline of wings extends downward at a right angle vertically; inner outlines of wings then become red, rising diagonally to meet beneath head under horizontal shoulder line; inner fill of wings is white. There are six sets of birds, one above the other, for a total of twelve birds.

Length

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Width

19 cm

Height

12 cm

Shape and Use

Bowl with foot.

Weave

Coiled bundled, imbricated; foot consists of two coils.

Materials

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