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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

Arrow Tray, or Simplified Trees with Handles

Design Description

Tray inside bottom design begins from centre, with a circle of red; seventh and eighth coils from centre are imbricated in alternating spaces. Tray has arrow shapes with flat bases, or very simplified tree shapes with flat bases. Each arrow alternates between black and red, pointing inward towards centre, with a fill of white inside each arrow. There are ten arrows in the inner circle, and ten in the outer circle, all pointing in; inner and outer rim are imbricated with chevron shapes, some of black and white, some of red and white; no imbrication on rim or handles of basket; plain outside.

Length

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Width

39 cm

Height

6.5 cm

Shape and Use

"Serving Tray" with handles; flat bottom.

Weave

Coiled bundled, imbricated; some type of a braided stitch on rim; handles made by raising top two coils; large coils on basket.

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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