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Basket LidA8999

Spruce root basket lid; plain twined work. Continuous stripes of rectangles joined through the center with a line. Decorated with two lines of dyed spruce root; one on the top and the other along the side. Lid is concave. Colour: brown.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
spruce root and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA8998

Woven spruce root basket; base is mixed twined work. Sides are plain twined with twilled border and braided rim. Design created by dyed weft strands. Four horizontal bands (six rows wide) with colours alternating with every warp strand, creating purple and red vertical stripes on a horizontal band. Twilled diamond pattern on border. Two rows of purple weft on base.

Culture
Northwest Coast ?
Material
dye and spruce root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA8997

Twined spruce root basket; plain twined work with twilled border and false embroidery. Diagonally striped band of brown and natural spruce root directly under twilled border. "Skip-stitch" pattern of diagonal lines. Braided border.

Culture
Northwest Coast ?
Material
dye and spruce root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA9365

Cylindrical basket of two-strand twined weaving with wide upper border of alternating rows of plain and twisted twined weaving. Five horizontal bands (each ten rows wide) of mud-dyed spruce root.

Culture
Nisga'a
Material
dye and spruce root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA9359

Small cylindrical basket with a wave motif and several animal figures in purple and red: three birds, a whale and a dog-like figure. Wrapped twined weaving on sides and base; folded warp rim.

Culture
Northwest Coast ?
Material
cedar bark, aniline dye and swamp grass
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeaddressA9355

Mask made from cut out planks of wood formed in a triangular-like shape with flat sides, a thin adjoining nose piece and a rectangular shaped piece of wood at the back. Detailed in blue and orange Northwest Coast stylized forms is a wolf with rectangular shaped nostrils, bared teeth and large eyes. The mouth and eyes are inlaid with pieces of mirrored glass as well as other small sections. Protruding from the top edge of the headdress are numerous thin sections of baleen creating a fringe. The inside has two thin wooden strips attached to two larger bars to create a frame for the head. Covering the frame is a piece of cotton fabric. Fibre ties hang from the bottom edge. (Similar to A9354).

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Ahousaht
Material
baleen, glass, silver alloy metal ?, fibre, wood, paint and cotton fibre
Made in
Ahousat, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeaddressA9354

Mask made from cut out planks of wood formed in a triangular-like shape with flat sides, a thin adjoining nose piece and a rectangular shaped piece of wood at the back. Detailed in blue and red Northwest Coast stylized forms is a wolf with ovoid shaped nostrils, bared teeth and large eyes. The mouth and eyes are inlaid with pieces of mirrored glass as well as other small sections. The nose is detailed with a blue crown-like shape. Protruding from the top edge of the headdress are numerous thin sections of baleen creating a fringe. The inside has two thin wooden strips attached to two larger bars to create a frame for the head. Covering the frame is a piece of cotton fabric. Fibre ties hang from the bottom edge. (Similar to A9355).

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Ahousaht
Material
wood, baleen, silver alloy metal ?, glass, fibre, cotton fibre and paint
Made in
Ahousat, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA8994

Spruce root basket; twined work with twilled pattern. Bands of red/green/red dye, with natural coloured bands above and below. Diagonal twilled pattern running through bands; also a 'self-weave' design.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
dye and spruce root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketryA8860

Swamp grass covered glass jar. Plain bands of colour top and bottom with two interior bands of green twined with red. Inside this are a row of purple birds along the top, a row of purple whales in the centre, and a row of alternating two-man canoes (one of which has line to whale) and ducks along the bottom.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
glass, swamp grass, aniline dye and cedar bark
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Burden BasketA8827

Burden basket made of coiled cedar root woven together with cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?). Simple coiled work with bifurcated stitches and an elongated watch-spring base construction. The upper half is decorated with a meander motif in black bark on white grass, two on each side or end. The lower half has a "cluster of flies" pattern (checkerboard strips) in black cherry bark. Two rawhide loops on one of the wider sides.

Culture
Coast Salish: Squamish
Material
cedar root, cat-tail grass ?, dye, cherry bark and rawhide skin
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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