Catalog Number
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Catalog Number |
CAS 0145-0027 | |
| 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 | |