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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

Large Storage Basket with Necklace Design

Design Description

Horizontal necklace design. Each necklace consists of three rows; first set at the top is black in the middle stripe, with one each of red above and below; then it alternates with red in the middle and black outside. There are eight such sets of three from the top to the bottom, continuing around the whole of the basket. Each imbricated stripe is beaded, meaning it alternates from one imbricated stitch, to one plain unimbricated, to the next imbricated in the same colour. The imbrications also alternate with the others in adjoining rows.

Length

29 cm

Width

44.5 cm

Height

27 cm

Shape and Use

Very tall, very deep rectangular "storage basket"; flared from bottom to top; extremely large—perhaps one of the largest seen by this researcher; most certainly used for storage; donor communicated that it was used at times as her playpen when she was a small child.

Weave

More than two feet high

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

This is the basket that Mrs. Freeman remembers as her childhood playpen. Donor: Mrs. Aida Freeman; collected by her mother Mrs. Kathleen Edith Pearson Southwell.

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