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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

Open Weave Bowl with Stars

Design Description

Series of occasional small stars or crosses; stars composed of alternating colours: either a red centre with black rays or a black centre and red rays; plain inside.

Length

27 cm

Width

27 cm

Height

24.5 cm

Shape and Use

Bowl shape with an open weave; composed of an alternating pattern of four straight coils which connect to a single row of W-shaped coils; bowl has a curved bottom.

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.

Notes:

See detailed conservation treatment on this artefact