Lidded Basket

The Burke: University of Washington

2014-14/20

The blue is dark blue, purple, red, green, orange, and yellow.


  • Type of Item lidded basket
  • Culture Nuu-chah-nulth
  • Material cedar bark, cat-tail grass, sedge grass, grass, swamp grass, dye, raffia
  • Manufacturing Technique plain plaited, twined, triple twined, wrapped twined, dyed
  • Measurements height 2.7 in, diameter 4.2 in (overall)

  • Received from Prof. Richard Nostrand



  • Credit In Honor of Howard Lee and Frances Anne Nostrand
  • Motif Bird | Star | Whale | Lightning Serpent
  • Collection Burke Museum Ethnology Collection