Basket

The Burke: University of Washington

2016-56/3

The raffia is natural and dark purple.


  • Type of Item basket
  • Culture Quileute
  • Material cedar bark, sedge grass, raffia
  • Manufacturing Technique plain plaited, plain twined, triple twined, dyed, wrapped, looped
  • Measurements height 2.5 in, diameter 5.5 in (overall)

  • Received from Mrs. Sam and Sally Green



  • Credit Gift of the Green Family in memory of Hazel Green and Mina Smith
  • Motif Bands
  • Collection Burke Museum Ethnology Collection