Burden Basket

The Burke: University of Washington

2012-100/61

The cherry bark is red. The cherry bark is black.


  • Type of Item burden basket
  • Culture Lower Thompson, Stalo
  • Material cedar root, split root, bear grass, cherry bark
  • Manufacturing Technique bundle coiled, imbricated, dyed
  • Measurements length 15.2 in, height 9.3 in, width 11.8 in (overall)

  • Received from Suttles Family Trust



  • Credit From the Wayne Suttles Collection, Gift of the Suttles Family Trust
  • Motif Stripes | Checkerboard
  • Collection Burke Museum Ethnology Collection