Basket

MOA: University of British Columbia

3116/4

Woven basket. Basket is rectangular in shape, narrow at base and flaring outward toward top. Rim is a large openwork scallop pattern of wrapped cedar roots. Two decorative lines of a repeating cross pattern run horizontally around the basket, made of imbricated red and dark brown bark and grass.


  • Type of Item basket
  • Culture Samahquam
  • Material grass, cedar root, cherry bark
  • Measurements height 12.8 cm, width 29.6 cm, depth 21.6 cm (overall)

  • Creator Annie Gauthier
  • Previous Owner Hugh Neil Smith
  • Received from Hugh Neil Smith

  • Made in Mission

  • Creation Date between 1900 and 1961
  • Ownership Date before June 26, 2015
  • Acquisition Date on June 26, 2015

  • Item Classes basketry
  • Condition good
  • Accession Number 3116/0004