CDM 973.47.1

Oval slat coiled basket with lid.  Imbricated diamond designs rendered in red and yellow on sides and ends of basket body.  The lid design is largely missing, but appears to have been 3 rows of  "+"  elements with red on the outside and yellow in the middle.  A 'signature strip' around the base of the basket bears sets of wide bands of imbrication flanked on either side by a narrow band of imbrication (see photo above).  The basket base is inset so that the basket is 'footed'. The edge of the wall base slat is finished with a single bundle coil as is the edge of the lid rim.  A second bundle coil runs around the interior circumference of the inset base slats. 

Materials: cedar wood slats, cedar root, cherry bark in its natural polished red colour, yellow design elements are rendered in an unknown plant fibre - perhaps dyed cat tail leaves

Techniques: slat coil construction, single bundle coil around lid rim and discontinuous bundle coil around slat ends, imbrication 

Overall dimensions: 30 cm x 19.5 cm x14.5 cm high