- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Quadrangular basket of twined red wicker.
- Long description
- Quadrangular basket with narrow base, small loop handles on the corners (one missing). By comparison with Kwakiutl specimen 1900.34.2, a carrying cord with plaited headband would have been threaded through these loops. Material, as for that specimen, is probably twigs of Thuja Gigantea. Wrapped twining technique. [LM]
- Geographical reference
- British Columbia NW Coast Vancouver Island
- Cultural groups
- Nuu-chah-nulth
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Frederick Dally
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1870, uncertain
- Date collected
- 1862 - 1870
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Plant Fibre, Material Spruce Root Plant, Process Twined Woven, Process Basketry
- Dimensions
- Height 240 mm, Length 290 mm, Width 240 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.44.25 PR no.: 75/ 12099
1884.44.25
Quadrangular basket of twined red wicker.
On display
1884.44.25
Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
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