Shopping Basket Item Number: A3421 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Tan basket with two coiled handles. Simple interlocking coiled work (some bifurcated stitches at sides). Parallel slat base construction with foot one slat wide. Overcast rim with a looped area to attach handles (cross stitches under loop). Partial imbrication. Isolated figures on the sides and the ends. Sides have a central diamond figure in red/white/black/white/red (centre) with four bilaterally symmetric geometric figures in red and white. Ends have one central figure composed of six chevrons in red with some white filler.
History Of Use
The type of basket used for shopping according to Sto:lo basket makers during a visit to the Museum of Anthropology on July 4th 2000.
Iconographic Meaning
The design on the ends of the basket is called flying geese.
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada between 1900 and 1950
- Collected in Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
- Owned by B.C. Indian Arts & Welfare Society before January 1950
- Received from B.C. Indian Arts & Welfare Society (Donor) during January 1950
What
- Name
- Shopping Basket
- Identification Number
- A3421
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- dye, cherry bark, cat-tail grass ? and cedar root
- Manufacturing Technique
- coiled and imbricated
- Overall
- height 20.3 cm, width 33.7 cm, depth 15.2 cm
Who
- Culture
- Coast Salish: Sto:lo
- Previous Owner
- B.C. Indian Arts & Welfare Society
- Received from
- B.C. Indian Arts & Welfare Society (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
- Collected in
- Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
When
- Creation Date
- between 1900 and 1950
- Ownership Date
- before January 1950
- Acquisition Date
- during January 1950
Other
- Item Classes
- basketry
- Condition
- good
- Accession Number
- 1909/0001