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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

Heart-shaped Arrow Bowl

Design Description

Arrows: eight around the top, seven around the middle, eight around the bottom. Design is simple, made of three lines each, with each arrow alternating from black to red; point of heart has one red arrow at its edge, then three sets along each long side, alternating black and red. Each set is one above the other, resulting in five or six arrows per side of the heart.

Length

24 cm

Width

23 cm

Height

11.5 cm

Shape and Use

Arrow-shaped bowl with looping along edges; rounded bottom; has string hanging from top centre of heart at rim (for hanging? pouring?).

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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