Storage Basket

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Description: 

Rigid, round, coiled basket of cedar root. Sides fully imbricated with beargrass. Six buckskin loops attached near rim. Braided rim., height: 7"; diameter at top: 9 1/2"; diameter at base: 5 1/2",

Community: 
Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Yakama
Protocol: 
Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture Public Access, Yakama Community Public Access
Category: 
Artistry and Artifacts
Original Date Description: 
1900-1925
Creator: 
Klickitat-Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, Maker, Southern Plateau-Sahaptin, culture group
Language: 
English
Rights: 
Copyright for permission to reproduce Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture/Eastern Washington State Historical Society Spokane, Washington
Source: 
AI Collection
Publisher: 
EWSHS/MAC
Identifier: 
MAC_1901
Subject: 
Plateau, Klickitat, Storage (Tools & Equipment->Container), Craft (Tools & Equipment)
Type: 
Image
Format: 
JPEG
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Cultural Narrative: 

Oh yeah, it looks like a tree of life. It's done in green and orange and the bottom room is sequential, white-dark-white-dark-white-dark, alternating colors. I've never seen a bottom like that on anyone we've looked at so far. So, that's the weaver's marking. Besides that the tree of life has the same color circle in the room of the basket and in the same color's the tree of life is made up. Yeah, I think we and just leave it at that it is likely Klickitat. Vivian Adams, Jolena Tillequots

Title: 
Storage Basket
Community: 
Yakama
Protocol: 
Yakama Community Public Access
Category: 
Artistry and Artifacts
Keywords: 
basket, tree of life, Klickitat
Contributor: 
Vivian Adams, Jolena Tillequots
Identifier: 
MAC_1901_YAK