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CAS Anthropology Collections Database


Catalog Number

CAS 0145-0027   CAS 0145-0027; Basket
Category Basketry
Object Name Basket
Culture Tsimshian
Global Region North America
Country Canada
State/Prov./Dist. British Columbia
County
Other Geographic Data Central coastal area
Maker's Name Unknown
Date of Manufacture ca. late 1800s
Collection Name N/A
Materials Western red cedar (Thuja plicata) bark; Vegetal (?) dye
Description Deep basket with flat rectangular base and vertical sides that rise to an oval mouth; Basket is woven entirely in simple plaiting technique, except for single row of plain twining immediately below the rim; Warp fibers are bent over at rim and woven in a diagonal stitch to bind them to a coil-wrapped reinforcing bundle around the interior of the rim; Warp and weft material is cedar bark; Designs are woven of dyed black cedar bark and consist of two vertical checkerboard bands that cross at a right angle on the base and extend up the sides and ends, and 3 horizontal checkerboard bands that encircle the sides of the basket.
Dimensions (cm) Height = 14.1, Max Diam = 16.9