basket;burden basket (t’cayas);t’cayas;basket
Object
- Accession Number
- OBJ_0026690
- Culture
- Nuu-chah-nulth or Salish
- Materials and Techniques
- cedar root
- cherry bark
- whole woven with bundle coil technique
- sides woven with ‘butterfly’ design
- Place
- Fraser River region
- British Columbia
- Canada
- North America
- Description
- A flat-based, rectangular basket. Bundle coil construction of cedar root skin strips with red cherry bark tucked overlay (imbrication). The geometric design, in this instance representing butterflies, is one of several traditional motifs. This basket was collected in the Fraser River region, and at the time of receipt into the Museum (1927) was documented as being over 100 years old.
Collected by Edgar Dewdney in the late 19th or early 20th century.
This object is on display at RAMM in the World Cultures gallery. - Description
- A flat-based, rectangular basket. Bundle coil construction of cedar root skin strips with red cherry bark tucked overlay (imbrication). The geometric design, in this instance representing butterflies, is one of several traditional motifs. This basket was collected in the Fraser River region, and at the time of receipt into the Museum (1927) was documented as being over 100 years old.
Collected by Edgar Dewdney in the late 19th or early 20th century.
This object is on display at RAMM in the World Cultures gallery. - See Elsewhere
- MDS record link
- Record Rights
- Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
- CC 0
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