Basket
Date1919
Mediumyellow cedar bark, spruce root, hemp
DimensionsOther: 31.5 × 34 cm (12 3/8 × 13 3/8 in.)
ClassificationsCeremonial Objects
Paper Field ReferencesCMH VII-B-1226
Object numberHRC 01226
Descriptionlarge coarse openwork basket with a radial start. parallel warps are held in place by z twined single wefts spacced 5cm apart. the rim is finished with 5 rows of z twining with no space between them. the warps are carrried one to the left, seccured by a single row of z twining and cut off on the outisde of the basket. two side handles are made of 2 ply s twist spruce root in an inverted u shape. the upper loop is 4 ply. a commercial hemp string is looped through the rim.collected in Masset
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