Baby's basket
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Birch bark, Leather
Measurements
5350 mm (Length)210 mm (W)
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1304729.1
Summary
One of two native Canadian birch bark baby's baskets, with soft leather ties. The sides of each basket bound with split bark and with bands of applied colouring in red and green. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Provenance
Collected by Lord Egerton in British Columbia c.1907
Marks and inscriptions
Associated label. 2 Babys Baskets. Made by the Williams Lake Indians British Columbia.