Basket Item Number: D3.7 a-b from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Brown birch bark basket (part a) tapering from a rectangular bottom to an oval-shaped top. Bark is bent and laced into place, with a twig around the rim overcast with red dyed spruce root. A flat, fitted lid (part b) features a looped handle in its centre set atop two layers of oval birch bark panels with decorative, zigzagging borders. Both the basket and the lid have decorative cross-shaped stitches in dyed red and green spruce root on them at well-spaced intervals.
Narrative
From the estate of an old home on The Gorge, Victoria, B.C.
Item History
- Made in Canada
- Collected between 1940 and 1962
- Owned by Edith Bevan Cross before July 30, 1962
- Received from Edith Bevan Cross (Seller) and H. R. MacMillan (Funding source) on July 30, 1962
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- D3.7 a-b
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- birch bark, spruce root, dye and fibre
- Manufacturing Technique
- bent, sewn and dyed
- Overall
- width 21.6 cm, depth 15.2 cm
- Remarks
- width 20.3 cm, depth 14.0 cm
Who
- Culture
- Arctic America ?
- Previous Owner
- Edith Bevan Cross
- Received from
- Edith Bevan Cross (Seller) and H. R. MacMillan (Funding source)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Canada
When
- Collection Date
- between 1940 and 1962
- Ownership Date
- before July 30, 1962
- Acquisition Date
- on July 30, 1962
Other
- Item Classes
- basketry
- Condition
- poor
- Current Location
- Case 30
- Accession Number
- 0081/0144 a-b