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Box Panel2859/1

Wooden panel carved with a distributive Northwest Coast design. Entire surface covered by large figure with a small almost three-dimensional figure in the centre front. Panel is unpainted; back is plain and has two hanging nails protruding. One side edge is rough and broken.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
cedar wood
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA16089 a-b

Small rounded basket (part a) with a lid (part b). The basket (part a) bulges around the middle. Has plain twined weaving with crossed warp open-work twined weaving ("eye-hole") and twined and wicker weave at the top. Overlaid twined weaving (false embroidery) is on the cover (part b) and the basket (part a). Black twined weave areas around the middle of the basket (part a) has six upward pointing black triangles in a horizontal row in false embroidery, which (Emmons' Tlingit Basketry, p. 270, calls "half of head of salmon-berry"), while the lid (part b) has five downward pointing black triangles. Construction of the cover (part b) is very intricate.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
fern root ?, swamp grass ?, grass and spruce root
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Chilkat Pattern BoardA8326

Distributive design painted in black on natural wood. The left side, from the top to the bottom, has the following: three circles in a rectangle each; an eye form in an ovoid; a circle in a rectangle with a pair of circles in a split u each; an ovoid in an ovoid with a profile face facing to the right side; and three circles in a rectangle each. The right side, from the top to the bottom, has the following: an eye form in an ovoid with a pair of circles in a rectangle each; an eye form in an ovoid with a pair of circles in a rectangle each above and a front facing face with an oval in a box in between; an eye form in an ovoid with a pair of eyes and a pair of circles in a rectangle each below; and a pair of circles in a split u form each with a front facing face.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
cedar wood and paint
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Pipe BagD2.87

One beadwork panel on each side of the long skin bag with two stripes each containing red, white, and green beads between the two panels. The panel on one side has a flower with four heart-shaped petals that are red at the centre bordered by light blue and pink with four dark blue leaves bordered by light blue around the left side. Above, there is a black 'P' that has gold within. To the right side, there extends a black plant that has another flower in profile toward the top and the bottom, both of which have two dark blue petals bordered by light blue with a gold centre at the tip. The panel on the other side is a stylized flower that has a light blue centre, four two-toned pink petals with a blue and gold-coloured petal in between and a light blue four-part leaf bordered by green curving around at either side. Both side flaps of the bag have two rounded projections creating a v-shape with white and green beaded edging. Below, there is a long skin fringe.

Culture
Plains
Material
deer skin, glass, metal and fibre
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BagD2.46

Deer hide fringed and beaded around the edge of the bag. Drawstring is also buckskin. Different beading is on each side. One side has a central concentric circle of dark blue, yellow, red, and light blue from which a two-curved hook extends from the top, the bottom, and both sides with the top and the bottom extending from a yellow line bordered by dark blue dots and red hooks while the side hooks are all dark blue. The other side has a design that consist of a pair of yellow, dark blue, and red tear drop shapes bordered by light blue at the bottom with an inverted dark blue v-line dangling below each. Above, there is a curvi-linear horizontal red line, a vertical yellow line bordered by light blue dots, and a dark blue two-curved hook at the top.

Culture
Blackfoot ? or Sioux ?
Material
skin, glass and fibre
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BagD2.96

Cotton backed with red wool and beaded on. The upper portion has a design that consists of an alternating yellow and green five-branched tree-like form with white, pink, and blue going upward along the middle. The lower portion has a similar green-tipped white seven-branched tree-like form with alternating yellow, green, and pink v-lines going upward along the middle. Curving upward from either bottom side, there is a blue line with a yellow flower at the upper corner end. The upper portion has a pale yellow, dark blue, and white border while the lower portion has a green and white border.

Culture
Sioux
Material
cotton fibre, wool fibre and glass
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BagD2.49

White skin bag beaded in a floral design with a fringe around the edge. The design on one side consists of a red heart-shaped flower at the middle bottom from which emanates above at either side a small, circular, purple flower, and two red flowers. The middle red flower on the left side is open while the one on the right side is in profile. The top red flowers above are in profile. The design on the other side consists of two open red flowers with a smaller one in the lower right corner, two small, circular purple flowers in between, and two different red flowers in profile at the top left corner. The bag has a yellow and purple draw string.

Culture
Blackfoot
Material
skin, silk fibre ? and glass
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BagD2.48

Back of the bag is made of hide edge with green wool and pale yellow and grey beads. Front is beaded with a geometric design that consists of a central red diamond shape bordered by dark blue, yellow, and green. Below this, there is an upward pointing, dark blue triangle bordered by yellow and green. Just above and over to the sides of the central diamond shape, there is a smaller yellow, red, and light blue diamond shape. The upper corners of the bag are rounded. The bag is edged with two rows of dark blue and one row of light blue beads. Beaded on one side.

Culture
Plains
Material
skin, glass and fibre
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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OrnamentD2.60 a-b

Two matching strands of beads wound around hide thong, metal cones attached to the ends. Bead colours alternating in brown and yellow stripes.

Culture
Plains
Material
glass, skin, metal and fibre
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HatbandD2.64 a-b

Pair of flat beaded bands with blue strips of cloth at both ends; geometric pattern with blue, yellow, brown and tan beads.

Culture
Blackfoot
Material
glass, fibre and dye
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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