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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

Diagonal Double Steps Storage with Foot, missing lid

Design Description

Diagonal double steps; centre of design is diagonal stepped white, surrounded by additional steps of black on top, and steps of red beneath.

Length

57.5 cm

Width

63 cm

Height

51.5 cm

Shape and Use

Rectangular storage; inside slatted lip missing a fitted lid. Likely the lid would have carried on the design of the basket; foot is also made of slats.

Weave

Coiled bundled; imbricated.

Materials

Split cedar root; inner bark of the chokecherry (naturally red, dye black); bear grass, (sun-bleached white).

Culture

N'laka'pamux, possibly North Bend or Lower Fraser Canyon.

History

Donor: Mrs. Aida Freeman; collected by her mother, Mrs. Kathleen Edith Pearson Southwell.

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