Description

Pentagonal-shaped coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with foot. Watch-spring base construction. Imbricated square pattern with possible floral motif, outlined in dark cherry bark and filled in with cat-tail grass (?). Small diamond shapes in red cherry bark with cat-tail grass (?) centers, flank main pattern. Foot is beaded in two rows of cat-tail grass (?), indicating bakset may have been made by a basket maker from Spuzzum, B.C.