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BasketA2.614

Oblong birch bark basket; birch bark is bent and laced into place. A twig splint is overcast with natural and aniline dyed root. The overcast stitch forms a scallop - the colour sequence is as follows: red/purple/wide band of natural/purple/red/purple/wide band of natural/purple. The darker part of the bark is to the outside.

Culture
Dakelhne: Nat'ooten: Babine
Material
birch bark, birch root and aniline dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2.615

Brown birch bark basket with an oval-shaped top and a rectangular bottom. Bark is bent and laced into place, with birch twine around the rim overcast with thin strips of root; decorative bands of beading are featured along the rim in four spots. Geometric and linear patterns are scratched onto the exterior sides, revealing a lighter shade of bark.

Culture
Dakelhne: Nat'ooten: Babine
Material
bark, birch bark, birch root and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2.617

Brown birch bark basket with an oval-shaped top and a rectangular bottom. Bark is bent and laced into place with birch twine around the rim overcast with birch root and partially beaded with crabapple bark. Geometric and linear patterns are scratched onto the exterior sides, revealing a lighter shade of bark.

Culture
Dakelhne: Nat'ooten: Babine
Material
birch bark, birch root, crabapple bark and stain ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpoonA8117

Wooden spoon with long, oval-shaped bowl and long handle. The handle is bent in the middle and narrows slightly towards a squared end. The top of the handle is flat but rounded underneath, creating in cross-section a half circle. The spoon is a reddish brown colour and darkened on the bottom of the bowl from use.

Culture
Coast Salish
Material
wood
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpoonA8118

Spoon carved from alder wood with leaf-shaped bowl. At one end the bowl curves upwards and bends to form the straight handle. The end of the handle is rounded and a hole has been drilled in it. The bottom of the spoon is rounded with one small flat area. The spoon is a dark reddish brown colour.

Culture
Coast Salish
Material
alder wood
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA8220

Flared rectanglular coiled work (bifurcated stitches)with foot. Parallel slat base and body construction: Imbricated design creating diamond design in negative space. Short sides have vertical pattern of diamonds on imbricated background of alternating cat-tail grass (?), dark and red cherry bark. Long sides have same design but two rows of diamonds. Foot is beaded in dark cherry bark. Rim is imbricated in cat-tail grass (?) and dark cherry bark.

Culture
Interior Salish ?
Material
cedar root, dye, cat-tail grass ? and cherry bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA8221

Rectangular coiled basket (bifurcated stitches). Parallel base construction. Beaded parallel rows alternating between red or dark cherry bark, from rim to base.

Culture
Interior Salish ?
Material
cedar root, cherry bark and dye ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bentwood BoxA8229 a-b

Bentwood box with four painted panels, and an unpainted removable lid (part b) with sides that bevel inwards towards the bottom. Two of the opposite sides of the box have similar designs formed in continuous black primary form lines and red secondary lines. On an adjacent side is a bird figure with an ovoid body painted in black and red. The last side is painted with two ovoids joined by a line, all in red.

Culture
Gitxsan
Material
paint and cedar wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureA8232

Naturalistic human head carved from wood and painted red and black, with traces of green. Large metal hook at the neck.

Culture
Nisga'a
Material
red cedar wood, metal and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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LadleA8236

Wooden ladle with leaf-shaped bowl and long handle with squared end. The handle becomes narrower towards the top and has an oval shaped indentation at its base. The underside of the ladle's bowl slopes to reach a gentle centre point. Many tools marks are visible on the inside of the bowl, which may have been coated with a grease or oil substance. The ladle is dark reddish-brown.

Culture
Coast Salish ?
Material
wood and oil
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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