Klikitat. Imbricated Basket, late 19th or early 20th century. Cedar root, bear grass, horsetail root dye, rawhide, 15 x 15 x 15 in. (38.1 x 38.1 x 38.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Stewart Smith Memorial Fund, 46.193.1. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 46.193.1_PS1.jpg)
Klikitat. Imbricated Basket, late 19th or early 20th century. Cedar root, bear grass, horsetail root dye, rawhide, 15 x 15 x 15 in. (38.1 x 38.1 x 38.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Stewart Smith Memorial Fund, 46.193.1. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 46.193.1.jpg)
Imbricated Basket
Arts of the Americas
CULTURE
Klikitat
MEDIUM
Cedar root, bear grass, horsetail root dye, rawhide
GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS
- Possible place made: Canada
- Possible place made: United States
DATES
late 19th or early 20th century
DIMENSIONS
15 x 15 x 15 in. (38.1 x 38.1 x 38.1 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Arts of the Americas
ACCESSION NUMBER
46.193.1
CREDIT LINE
Charles Stewart Smith Memorial Fund
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Basket with an imbricated pattern made from brown bark, yellow bark, and ivory-yellow grass wrapped over cedar root. Imbrication is a regular overlapping arrangement technique that is used exclusively by Native people of the Plateau and Northwest Coast areas. The Klikitat maker used a coil technique that is more like sewing than weaving. Coiled baskets are built up spirally from the center and require two components: the first is a central core of rods or grasses serving as a foundation for the second component which is a group of fibers that simultaneously wrap around the foundation and stitch the coils together. An awl creates holes in the foundation through which fibers are pulled or stitched. While sewing is in process, imbrication decoration is also going forward. Imbrication involves wrapping dyed grasses into the basket, forming an overlapping pattern. The basket is in stable condition.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Klikitat. Imbricated Basket, late 19th or early 20th century. Cedar root, bear grass, horsetail root dye, rawhide, 15 x 15 x 15 in. (38.1 x 38.1 x 38.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Stewart Smith Memorial Fund, 46.193.1. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 46.193.1_PS1.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 46.193.1_PS1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2006
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