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Basket

MOA: University of British Columbia

3000/34

Large oblong basket. Base is rectangular, with thick walls flaring upward with a slight curve, and rounded corners. The weave overall is small and tight. Imbricated decorations have faded and decayed but suggest many vertical lines of cherry bark across the surface of the basket, with small squares of the same attached to both sides of the lines at regular intervals.

  • 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 root, cherry bark
  • Measurements height 23.6 cm, width 43.5 cm, depth 32.5 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 fair
  • Accession Number 3000/0034

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