Basketry

25 items

Salish Basket
Artist Unknown (Salish) (Salish)

Late 19th Century The interior is lined with tree sap, a method used to strengthen the seal of th...

Late 19th Century The interior is lined with tree sap, a method used to strengthen the seal of the basket and prolong its functional use.

$1,200.00

Lillooet Domed Trunk Basket
Artist Unknown

Circa 1920 Designed after a European trunk.

Circa 1920 Designed after a European trunk.

$1,800.00

Tlingit Rattle Top Basket
Artist Unknown (Tlingit)

In near-perfect condition, with slight repair on the lid.

In near-perfect condition, with slight repair on the lid.

$2,500.00

Salish Basket
Artist Unknown (Salish) (Salish)

$800.00

Tlingit Basket
Artist Unknown (Tlingit)

$2,500.00

Tlingit Basket
Artist Unknown (Tlingit)

$2,500.00

Imbricated Basket
Artist Unknown (Salish)

$1,500.00

Alaska Basket
Artist Unknown (Tsimshian)

$1,600.00

Cedar Basket
Artist Unknown (Tsimshian)

$800.00

Tlingit Basket
Artist Unknown (Tlingit)

$1,600.00

Salish Basket
Artist Unknown (Salish) (Salish)

$1,500.00

Burden Basket
Artist Unknown (Klikitat)

c. 1880To view a similar style Klickitat (Klikitat) burden basket that is housed in the permanent...

c. 1880To view a similar style Klickitat (Klikitat) burden basket that is housed in the permanent collection of the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, click here.

$800.00

Nuu-Chah-Nulth Basket
Artist Unknown (Nuu-Chah-Nulth)

Missing lid.

Missing lid.

$100.00

Salish Basket
Artist Unknown (Salish)

Traditionally an art practiced only by women, in the past baskets were made for a wide variety of...

Traditionally an art practiced only by women, in the past baskets were made for a wide variety of domestic uses associated with the gathering, storing and cooking of different foods. Similar weaving techniques were also used to make cradles and hats for everyday and ceremonial uses.Most basketry is traditionally woven from long, slender and pliant rootlets of cedar and sometimes spruce, although various grasses are used in some regions. A sharply pointed bone awl is used to split the rootlet ...

$1,800.00

Thompson River Knob Top Basket
Artist Unknown (Salish)

c. 1920

c. 1920

$3,500.00