Rectangular, flaring, coiled. Decorations in straw color, red and black, and consists of coils of upper half of basket being overlaid with straw color and black, giving striated appearance. Below depend bars of red, black, and straw color material.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Fraser River, British Columbia, Canada
Verbatim coll. place:
Canada; British Columbia; Fraser River
Culture or time period:
Fraser River tribes
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 14 inches, width 11 inches, and length 8.75 inches