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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

Sunburst Tray with Handles

Design Description

Tray inside bottom design begins from centre, with a circle of black, outlined with a circle of red; design then radiates outward like a sunburst, as a series of W’s but with curved lines instead of straight lines; inner ray has three outlines that radiate as black, then red, then black. nine points on inside burst, seventeen on outside; outer sunburst is the same, radiating as black, red, and black; inner and outer rims of tray have a series of diamond shapes of red and black; top edge of rim is imbricated in red; plain outside and bottom.

Length

38 cm

Width

46.5 cm

Height

7.5 cm

Shape and Use

"Serving tray" with handles; flat bottom; circular shape.

Weave

Coiled bundled, imbricated.

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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