Basketry covered glass float. Round float is completely covered in finely woven basketry, with a round woven foot of cedar root. Images in the weave are created with dyed grass and include a green pinwheel on top, large two-footed creatures below, the words “Estevan Point 1943” at midpoint, with several floating ducks at bottom.

• Narrative

  Collected by the donor's father, Alan Deacon, from a Hesquiaht weaver, while he was a wireless operator at Estevan Point in the 1940s.

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• Type of Item basketry
• Culture Nuu-chah-nulth
• Material glass, swamp grass, cedar root, dye
• Measurements height 8.8 cm, diameter 8.8 cm (overall)

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• Previous Owner Joy Eastman
• Received from Joy Eastman

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• Made in Estevan Point

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• Creation Date during 1943
• Ownership Date before May 8, 2014
• Acquisition Date on May 8, 2014

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• Item Classes basketry
• Condition fair
• Accession Number 3058/0008