Basket

About this object

History of use

Storage basket.

Physical description

Rectangular coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with attached lid. Parallel splint base and lid construction. Fully imbricated cat-tail grass (?) with horizontal parallel bands in dark cherry bark that separate vertical rows of connected triangles, also in dark cherry bark, flanking a red cherry bark center line. Rim of lid imbricated with alternating double stitches of red and black cherry bark on cat-tail grass background. String hinge.