Mat
Item number Nb666 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
Item number Nb666 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
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Square cedar bark mat with a checkerboard-like weave. Six bands of dark brown-grey stripes with two solid stripes running along either end.
Mats made from inner cedar bark served a variety of uses such as; dividers for privacy, eating, sleeping, keeping out drafts, protection of canoe cargo, drying berries, covering food boxes, gambling on, given as gifts. Some women gave birth on a clean mat and bodies of the deceased would be wrapped in a mat and then placed in a mortuary box. Mats were used ceremonially by all Northwest Coast people with some variations.
domestic
The mat is woven in a simple plaiting technique 2 edges are finished by folding the warps under and securing the ends with a row of twining.
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domestic
Mats made from inner cedar bark served a variety of uses such as; dividers for privacy, eating, sleeping, keeping out drafts, protection of canoe cargo, drying berries, covering food boxes, gambling on, given as gifts. Some women gave birth on a clean mat and bodies of the deceased would be wrapped in a mat and then placed in a mortuary box. Mats were used ceremonially by all Northwest Coast people with some variations.
The mat is woven in a simple plaiting technique 2 edges are finished by folding the warps under and securing the ends with a row of twining.
Square cedar bark mat with a checkerboard-like weave. Six bands of dark brown-grey stripes with two solid stripes running along either end.
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