Basket

The basket is said to have been made in 1902, on the occassion of the birth of the donor's mother. Lucy Simla would have been living in the Similkameen area at that time.

Four-sided woven basket. A large rectangular top, which tapers in to a small rectangular base. The sides and rim are beaded with cherry bark and cedar bark in a repeating flower-like design, alternating between dark red and black with off-white. The rim of the basket is beaded as well. There are five loops of rawhide tied through the sides of the basket, one on each of three sides, two on the fourth side.