Basket Item Number: A7493 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Flat, rectangular cedar and cherry bark basket with checkerwork plaited weaving (cherry bark weft with cedar warp) with openwork 'eyehole' weave as well as some twilled design in skipped stitch cherry bark. Checkerwork has faint zig zag pattern. There are five horizontal bands of checkerwork evenly divided by openwork.
Item History
- Made in Alaska, USA
- Collected before 1900
- Owned by A. D. MacFarlane
- Owned by Edward F. Meade before May 1961
- Received from H. R. MacMillan (Funding source) and Edward F. Meade (Seller) during May 1961
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- A7493
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- cedar bark and cherry bark
- Manufacturing Technique
- plaited and twilled
- Overall
- height 26.3 cm, width 33.6 cm, depth 1.4 cm
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit ?
- Previous Owner
- A. D. MacFarlane and Edward F. Meade
- Received from
- H. R. MacMillan (Funding source) and Edward F. Meade (Seller)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Alaska, USA
When
- Collection Date
- before 1900
- Ownership Date
- before May 1961
- Acquisition Date
- during May 1961
Other
- Item Classes
- basketry
- Condition
- good
- Accession Number
- 0050/0026