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BasketA2.598

Circular, finely woven basket with an open top, flared, wavy rim, and a woven handle arcing from one side to the other. Several bands of decorative open weave encircle the bottom and the flared top rim of the basket, with a wavy line of bright yellow woven around the basket 1.5 centimeters from the upper rim.

Culture
Aleut
Material
grass, fibre and dye
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNa1079

Round basket with grass twined rim. Cedar bark flange looped with grass warp strands. Sides and base are grass, twined. Design consists of a band of dark blue stitching between a band of light red and green diamonds in wool ? and a band of light red and light green diamonds in silk (?) round basket lid.

Culture
Aleut
Material
silk fibre ?, wool fibre ?, cedar bark and grass
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNa727 a-b

Round, closed two-strand twined basket with lid. Straight-sided, very finely woven. Approximately every 6th element in every 6th row is red (warp of same grass dyed red, otherwise yellow-green). Bottom of basket is coarser and darker red/beige. Blue band, a single element wide around bottom edge. Lid (b) rim is reinforced by cedar bark band. Red 'dot' pattern on lid, same as basket. Two small holes near bottom centre.

Culture
Aleut
Material
grass, dye and cedar bark
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNa726

Open, round cylindrical shaped basket, open twining on bottom and in alternating double row sections on sides, with rows of cross warp sections (3 sets). Top section is decorated with double row of black wave-like twine. One aspect of basket side, twining between open-work slants diagonally, interrupting the otherwise parallel lines. Rim, two strand twined; with twisted loops along top. Inside unfinished ends at rim and centre bottom. Two strand thread interwoven along rim.

Culture
Aleut
Material
dune grass, dye and fibre
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA3177 a-b

Twined grass basket with lid. Decorated with ambiguous figures, perhaps flowers, in grid pattern along the sides and lid. Divided warp twined weave (also called hemstitching) with wool yarn overlay. Colours: pale blue, green, orange, red, brown.

Culture
Aleut
Material
sea grass and wool fibre
Made in
Unalaska, Alaska, USA ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2.593

Cylindrical basket with wool yarn embroidery. Sea grass (probably wild barley or wild pea) split into finer strands; pink, green, pale green, and pale purple yarn. Two bands of checker work pattern. Plain twine weave and crossed warp weave openwork with embroidery in yarn.

Culture
Aleut
Material
grass, wool fibre ? and dye
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2.623

Woven basket with a circular basket and straight, vertical sides. Open twined weaving with weft strand far apart but with wrapped warp border at top and wool overlay embroidery. Hourglass design motif in red with blue-green ends and blue-green with red ends.

Culture
Aleut
Material
sea grass and wool fibre
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2.624

Circular utility basket with braided rope at top. Two strand twined openwork weave with warp strands alternating double bound: wool yarn bound round weft strands at top. Four horizontal bands in blue with red dotted lines in interior resulting from wool wound around weft strands.

Culture
Aleut
Material
sea grass, grass and wool fibre
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2.591 a-b

Wicker weave with twilled weave for patterns. Running pattern on top and side (with pattern running clockwise on top, and counter-clockwise on the sides). The colour is dark greyish-blue-purple.

Culture
Aleut
Material
grass and dye
Made in
Nome, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2.594

Cylindrical light brown woven basket with several black weft fibres used at random intervals.

Culture
Aleut
Material
sea grass and dye
Made in
Samalga, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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