Rectangular with side walls incurving at bottom; coiled with circular beading in upper area and in lower area, vertical linear drop lines. Both beading and imbrication in natural and black. In poor condition, pieces broken and missing from upper area. Made of cedar root.
Donor:
Mrs. Lewis Summers
Collection place:
British Columbia, Canada
Verbatim coll. place:
Canada; British Columbia
Culture or time period:
Lillooet
Collector:
Clement M. Summers
Collection date:
ca. 1900
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 29 centimeters, width 31 centimeters, and 40.5 centimeters
Comment:
References: Haeberlin, H. K., James A. Teit and Helen H. Roberts, "Coiled Basketry in British Columbia and Surrounding Region," 41st Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1919-1924, pp. 335-44, figure 26c, plates 18c, 27h, 30c.