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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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Basketry CupA2.627

Basketry cup. Plain twined work. Fully false embroidered stepped design (called shaman's hat design) in red and yellow on a natural grass ground. Coated with laquer inside.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
spruce root, aniline dye, swamp grass and lacquer
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNb22.81 a-b

Woven basket with base and lid. Base - mixed twined weaving: sides - plain twined work with mixed twined work border; lid - plain twined with rattle section: design is false embroidered. Sides - two bands of a "meander" pattern in purple on brown bordered with red. Lid - similar pattern; false embroidery on lid is green; lid has raised centre that rattles.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
spruce root, aniline dye and swamp grass
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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MatA2.596

Twined mat with wool yarn overlay. Very fine twined weave with embroidery overlay. Concentric bands resulting from embroidered concentric circles with small triangular figures in mixed colours. Colours: pink, rose, green, white.

Culture
Aleut
Material
sea grass ? and wool fibre
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2.597 a-b

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.

Culture
Aleut
Material
wild rye grass, silk fibre and dye
Made in
Attu Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA1813

Oblong basket in plain twined work with embroidered design; braided handle and rim. Zig-zaged pattern with "v's" in alternating colours of purple and orange on strips of brown. Handle has a strand of orange grass running through it.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
aniline dye, grass and spruce root
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Chilkat RobeA17007

Chilkat style robe with woven designs and long fringe. The design is a three panel distributive. In the centre are two ancestor faces surrounded by a diving whale(?) motif. The side panels have ancestors faces in profile and a raven motif. The design is yellow, blue and black on natural ground. The two bottom corners have two rectangles with zigzags in black and yellow, associated with the identity of the weaver. There is long twisted fringe, on three sides, of mixed wool and cedar bark. On the top edge are two red flannel tabs with buttons and buttonholes for securing the robe around the neck.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Fort Rupert, British Columbia, Canada and Tsaxis, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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