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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;komokwa, post: 4621402, member: 301&quot;]What points to it being Salish specifically?</p><p><br /></p><p>Well for starters ...me.....it&#039;s my business to know these things..!</p><p><br /></p><p>Factually ,</p><p><br /></p><p>the bundle coiling technique ,</p><p>used to make the basket firm and strong.</p><p><br /></p><p>the design,</p><p>that rectangle upwardly flared manufacture , with a round coiled base.</p><p><br /></p><p>the cherry bark imbrication..</p><p>Imbrication is a regular overlapping arrangement technique that is used exclusively by Native people of the Plateau and Northwest Coast areas.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.whatcommuseum.org/virtual_exhibit/universal_exhibit/vex19/thumbs/bd08e790-b0d2-45d0-b4de-536195611452.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>the tightly woven cedar root ,</p><p>making the basket ideal for gathering and holding wet items....</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>from the Burke Museum....( just to have my back...)</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4"><b>Salish Weaving Basketry</b></font></p><p>Baskets were used for storage or for gathering berries, roots, clams and other foods. Coiled baskets were tight enough to be used for boiling soups and stews. There are three basic basketry techniques used by Coast Salish weavers: coiling, twining and plaiting.</p><p><br /></p><p>For coiled baskets, cedar roots are peeled and split. The rough inner roots are bundled to make the foundation of the coil, and the smooth outer root is used as the sewing element. Coiling involves the use of an awl, a pointed bone tool, to push a hole through the coil below the bundle, the sewing element is pushed through this opening and tightened to attach the bundle to the coil below. Decorative elements made of cherry bark, dyed cedar bark, bear grass, or horsetail rhizomes, are folded and sewn down on the outside of the basket to form geometric patterns, in a technique called imbrication.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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