Catalog Number
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Catalog Number |
CAS 0145-0067 | |
| 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 round basket with flat, rectangular base and slightly flaring sides that rise to an oval rim; Basket is woven entirely in simple plaiting technique, except for single row of plain twining immediately below rim; At the rim the warp fibers are bent over and woven in a diagonal stitch to bind them into a coil-wrapped reinforcing bundle of cedar bark that encircles the interior of the rim; Warp and weft fibers are cedar bark slats; Designs are woven of dyed black cedar bark slats and consist of 6 parallel checkerboard bands that encircle sides of basket (3 on lower sides and 3 on upper sides). | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Height = 16.6, Max Diam = 20.0 | |