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Kadádzaa yéit (berry basket)

Kadádzaa yéit (berry basket)

ca. 1900

Flaring berry baskets were used by women and children for harvesting blueberries, salmonberries, huckleberries, soapberries, strawberries and other varieties found in the wild. Such special foods were loaded into dishes for the culmination of the potlatch feast.
Spruce root, maidenhair fern stem, grass
9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm)
Diam.: 10 3/4 in.
Gift of John H. Hauberg
83.233
Provenance: John H. Hauberg, Seattle, Washington, until 1983; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Published ReferencesThe Spirit Within: Northwest Coast Native Art from the John H. Hauberg Collection, Seattle Art Museum, 1995, pg. 76

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