Small cup-shaped basket, very closely woven spirally from cedar root strips, covered with ornamental coating of straw work with patterns in black bark (imbrication). Very stoutly made. Used for holding water. Stitched with two rows of red woollen yarn below rim. One skin loop below rim and broken remains of another.

Collection type: Object
Description: Small cup-shaped basket, very closely woven spirally from cedar root strips, covered with ornamental coating of straw work with patterns in black bark (imbrication). Very stoutly made. Used for holding water. Stitched with two rows of red woollen yarn below rim. One skin loop below rim and broken remains of another.
Geographical reference: United States of America
Northern America > North America > United States of America; NW Coast Washington State Puget Sound (Paget's Inlet)
Cultural groups: Salish; Nisqually
Person: Field collector James Wood; Field collector HMS Pandora; PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Date / Period: Date made: On or before 1850
Date collected: ?On or before 1850
Acquisition information: Transferred: 18/11/1885
Materials and processes: Material Bark Fibre Plant, Material Plant Fibre, Material Wool Textile Animal, Material Animal Skin, Material Grass Fibre Plant, Material Cedar Wood Plant, Material Yarn, Process Woven, Process Basketry, Process Coiled, Process Imbricated, Process Stitched, Process Dyed
Dimensions: Height 75 mm, Diameter: max 95 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.1.857
Research and responses: Andrea Laforet, Canadian Museum of Civilization, notes that 'Paget Inlet' probably refers to Puget Sound. August 1991.

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