Small woven basket is round, sides flaring slightly toward the inset rim. Design woven into sides is of a fishing boat with three figures harpooning a whale (possibly an orca). Lid is round with short sides that fit snugly onto the basket’s rim. It is decorated with an encircling ring around the rim, and an orange and green flower pattern at top centre. The basket’s coloured designs are very faded on the outside, but bright on the interior.

• 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 basket
• Culture Nuu-chah-nulth
• Material swamp grass, dye, cedar root
• Measurements height 4.8 cm, diameter 6.8 cm (part a) height 1.7 cm, diameter 6.9 cm (part b)

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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 1945
• Ownership Date before May 8, 2014
• Acquisition Date on May 8, 2014

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• Item Classes basketry
• Condition good
• Accession Number 3058/0011 a-b