Gift of Mrs. Richard Nunn and Lucy Trevett.

Gift of Miss Henrietta E. Failing.

Gift of Miss Henrietta E. Failing.

Gift of Miss Henrietta E. Failing.

Gift of Miss Henrietta E. Failing.

Imbricated basket. Tall basket is shaped like an inverted cone, with a small rounded bottom flaring up toward the braided rim. The exterior of the basket is heavily covered in imbricated decoration in a dense linear zigzag design in dark brown and red-brown, on a dyed yellow background. Interior is undecorated. A double thong of thin hide serves as a handle and is tied to the rim in two places.

Large burden basket with strap. Basket is constructed in a sturdy, open weave, wide at the mouth, narrowing sharply to a small rectangular base. Base is woven in a herringbone pattern. The lip is wrapped with cherry bark, which is also used as a decorative element in the body of the basket as strands of the warp. A rope of coarse plant fibre is attached around the lip by twists of cedar root, with a carrying strap of woven wool in dark brown and blue attached on one side.

Basket with lid. Basket is round, with a wide shoulder that narrows toward a narrower mouth at top, and a smaller base. The exterior is decorated with cherry bark imbrication in a repeating lightning design in alternating bolts of dark and light brown. The interior bottom is imbricated in a butterfly wing design of triangles in three shades of brown bark. The lid (part b) is slightly domed, with an inset lip and is topped with a round handle at centre. Handle is held to the lid by a short length of white rope attached to a small piece of wood on the underside. Lid is similarly decorated with the repeating lightning design.

Basketry strips. Two separate bundles of dried yellow cedar root. Strips are of varying thickness; one wider strip is tied in a circle; the other part is bundled together and tied with a strip of red cedar.

Small woven basket with scalloped rim. Basket is oblong and rounded, with a checked pattern of cherry bark encircling the exterior in four rows. The openwork scalloped rim is made of wrapped root.