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