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Interior Salish Square Basket

Date: circa 1968
Dimensions:
9 1/2 × 9 1/2 × 9 in. (24.1 × 24.1 × 22.9 cm)
Medium: Probable materials: Cedar Root, cherry bark, bleached grass (ID found in Marmie Hess notes)
Credit Line: From the Universty of Lethbridge art collection; git of Dr Margaret (Marmie) Perkins Hess, 2017
Object number: 2018.262
Not on View
DescriptionSquare base, straight walls and square opening; lower part of basket is solid and upper 2/3 of basket has decorative openwork. A decorative motif in black, white, golden yellow and brown of 3 diamond shapes per side along bottom exterior of basket, also back and brown small squares decorate the openwork and rim of the basket.