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Basket

MOA: University of British Columbia

3074/5

Round basket with imbricated decoration and cotton thread embellishment. Basket is wide at middle, inclining to a smaller base and mouth. Construction is a small, tight coil with tight, even redbud root wrapping. The imbricated decoration is in patterns of stepped triangles. Light cotton thread has been sewn at the lip in several sets of two long stitches, with a single zigzag pattern amongst them.

  • Narrative

    Originally owned by the donor's late husband's grandmother, Eleanor Caldwell Browne. She taught at a government Indian school in Indian Valley, near Greenville, Plumas County, California, from 1897-99. It is thought that the baskets were a gift to her during that time.

  • Type of Item basket
  • Culture Maidu
  • Material redbud root, willow root, acorn dye, cotton fibre
  • Measurements height 9.8 cm, diameter 15.5 cm (overall)
  • Previous Owner Eleanor Caldwell Browne, Claudine B. Nelson
  • Received from Claudine B. Nelson
  • Made in California
  • Creation Date between 1850 and 1900
  • Ownership Date before 1947, before September 18, 2014
  • Acquisition Date on September 18, 2014
  • Item Classes basketry
  • Condition good
  • Accession Number 3074/0005

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