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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

Multi-Coloured Diamond Bowl

Design Description

Multi-coloured large diamonds of red, black and white; four in number, spaced evenly around bowl; diamonds stretch from top to bottom of bowl; centres are white, surrounded by red, and outwardly by black, with white interspersed between sections of black and red.

Length

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Width

21 cm

Height

15.5 cm

Shape and Use

A tall, deep bowl with a flat bottom and slightly rounded bottom edges; bowl comes in slightly at the top, not enough to classify as a "nut shape," but tall enough to verge on the edge between nut and bowl shape; no lid.

Weave

Coiled bundled; imbricated.

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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