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Basket

MOA: University of British Columbia

3000/32

Long, oval cedar basket. Walls of basket angle very slightly outward from base to rim, where a row of twisted cedar lines the mouth. Two long flexible handles of wrapped cedar cross the basket and are attached to its long sides with leather thongs. Decoration is a wide encircling stepped line, in imbricated red and black bark.

  • Narrative

    From the collection of the missionary Thomas Crosby, who worked in various places on the Northwest Coast of B.C. from 1863 to 1907.

  • Type of Item basket
  • Culture Coast Salish
  • Material grass, dye, cedar root, cherry bark, rawhide skin
  • Measurements height 25.7 cm, width 41.5 cm, depth 28.0 cm (overall)
  • Previous Owner Thomas Crosby, Jane Howard, Thomas Taylor Crosby
  • Received from Jane Howard, Thomas Taylor Crosby
  • Made in British Columbia
  • Ownership Date before 1914, before April 17, 2013
  • Acquisition Date on April 17, 2013
  • Item Classes basketry
  • Condition good
  • Accession Number 3000/0032

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