Basket with False Embroidery
Date1898
Mediumspruce root, mammal skin, grass
DimensionsOther: 21.5 × 26 cm (8 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
ClassificationsCeremonial Objects
Paper Field ReferencesCMH VII-B-885
Object numberHRC 00885
Descriptionbasket of spruce root. straight sided flexible basket, circular in shape. plain twined weaving. imbricated design, 7cm wide, 3.5cm from rim, with dark yellow grasses. three bands, each band alternatingg right side up and inverted triangles around basket; bands separated by straight lines. short handles made of thrree sskin thongs passing through opposite sides. base of basket darkened from use. (false embriodery design is called killerwhale teeth, half head of salmon berry).collected in Skidegate
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