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Item number A2.597 a-b from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
Item number A2.597 a-b from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
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Cigarette case and cover. Twined weave and cross warp openwork twined weave with overlay embroidery. Cover design: two triangles, contiguous at vertex with line at point of contact. Case design in symmetric colour arrangement. Colours: red, blue, turquoise, rose.
Basketry cases were made during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries solely for the export market, and they could take four to six months to complete, with the weaver working several hours a day. Women allowed their thumbnails to grow long to aid in the lengthy process of splitting the grass materials, and skilled weavers could produce four usable strands from a single blade.
Collected by the father of Mrs. Smith in 1912.
American dunegrass (wild rye or Leymus mollis) was cut, bleached, dried and split into very thin strands and then lightly twisted to use in the weaving of this basketry item. Geometric designs were added using a false embroidery technique.
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Collected by the father of Mrs. Smith in 1912.
Cigarette case and cover. Twined weave and cross warp openwork twined weave with overlay embroidery. Cover design: two triangles, contiguous at vertex with line at point of contact. Case design in symmetric colour arrangement. Colours: red, blue, turquoise, rose.
American dunegrass (wild rye or Leymus mollis) was cut, bleached, dried and split into very thin strands and then lightly twisted to use in the weaving of this basketry item. Geometric designs were added using a false embroidery technique.
Basketry cases were made during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries solely for the export market, and they could take four to six months to complete, with the weaver working several hours a day. Women allowed their thumbnails to grow long to aid in the lengthy process of splitting the grass materials, and skilled weavers could produce four usable strands from a single blade.
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