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basket
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact84019
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV014.9.1
- Description
- This basket is woven using the wrapped twining method and is made of swamp grass. The designs were made using aniline dyes and are badly faded; original colours still visible on the inside of lid and basket. The weave on this basket is very finely done. The basket and lid are decorated with bird motifs. Originally birds were yellow on a purple background. The lid has a drop edge that fits over a lip around the top edge of the basket. It is decorated in concentric circles with a dark spot in the centre. The spot includes black as well as the wine colour. The outside is faded to a light brown colour. Nuu-chah-nulth
- Object History
- The basket was acquired in Victoria in the 1930s before the family moved to Vancouver.
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- Culture
- Nuu-Chah-Nulth
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chisel
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact38885
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV998.11.1
- Description
- Chisel shaped tool, wedge-shaped; mainly green with white and brown fissures throughout. One side has elevated edge, possibly for attaching to handle.
- Object History
- The stone chisel was found by Archie Card, ca 1930 in the yard of the Card family home at 329 Richmond Street (later renamed Elwell) in Burnaby.
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tray
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact87627
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV017.12.1
- Description
- tray; a First Nations made, basketry tray; low sides and two raised handles opposite each other; decorative star or flower pattern woven into the bottom in varying shades of brown; multiple areas of loss around outer sides of rim.
- Object History
- The tray and two baskets (see BV017.11.3 and BV017.11.4) were acquired by the donor's grandparents, Matilda and Robert William Handel, when they were living in North Vancouver. They were made by one of the local First Nations weavers, name unknown.
- Measurements
- Approx. Dia.: 43 cm
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