Basket Item Number: Nd669 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Rectangular basket with cedar slat and root coil construction, with beading on three sides. Imbricated on four sides with vertical stripes of yellow-orange, brown and red coloured bark, and possibly grass? The wool tumpline has a zigzag pattern of pink, green and red, on a braided plant fibre (hemp?) strap; the strap is attached to the basket edge by cotton string in three places. The upper rim is wrapped.
History Of Use
Carrying basket used for transporting and storing materials. It was carried on the back with a head or breast strap. They were used to carry a wide variety of goods and materials, such as water, stones, firewood, roots, fruits, seeds, textile materials, fish and game. Women and girls both made and used these baskets. Family wealth was partially correlated to the number and quality of these baskets. The designs on the baskets are said to relate to aspects of Interior Salish cosmology.
Cultural Context
transportation
Narrative
This Lillooet style basket was given to Prof. Borden by Christina Charles who came from Squamish and lived at Musqueam. It was collected between 1940 and 1978. It was exhibited in the "Hands of Our Ancestors" exhibition at MOA in 1986.
Item History
- Made by Mary Jacob ? (Maker) in Mount Currie, British Columbia, Canada and Pemberton, British Columbia, Canada before 1978
- Collected before 1978
- Owned by Christine Charles
- Owned by Charles E. Borden before March 5, 1979
- Received from Charles E. Borden (Donor) on March 5, 1979
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- Nd669
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- cotton fibre, wool fibre, cherry bark, cedar wood, cedar root, grass ?, plant fibre and dye
- Manufacturing Technique
- dyed, coiled, braided, beaded and imbricated
- Overall
- height 20.2 cm, width 25.8 cm, depth 32.3 cm
Who
- Culture
- Interior Salish: Stl'atl'imx
- Creator
- Mary Jacob ? (Maker)
- Previous Owner
- Christine Charles and Charles E. Borden
- Received from
- Charles E. Borden (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Mount Currie, British Columbia, Canada and Pemberton, British Columbia, Canada
When
- Creation Date
- before 1978
- Collection Date
- before 1978
- Ownership Date
- before March 5, 1979
- Acquisition Date
- on March 5, 1979
Other
- Item Classes
- basketry
- Condition
- fair
- Current Location
- Case 34
- Accession Number
- 0515/0002