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Stick BasketNb656

Open twined basket with a flat bottom and rounded sides. From the rim, there are five rows of plain twining followed by an open area of crossed open twining. At the junction of the sides, and onto the bottom, there is plain twining for seven rows, and then open twining to the centre.

Culture
Yurok
Material
root ?
Made in
California, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Stick PlateNb655

Round, open twined plate curving up at the sides. Two rows of multi-ply 2 strand braided rim. Rigid stick-like warps are bound with evenly spaced rows of twined split root weft elements. Warps form a triangular pattern.

Culture
Yurok
Material
wood ? and root
Made in
California, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BowlNb654

Round, twined, brown bowl with a light yellow-brown bear grass pattern band below the rim. Design consists of two parallel raised rows between a step pattern, above and below the centre band.

Culture
Hupa
Material
bear grass and root
Made in
California, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Child's BowlNb653

Round twined, light brown bowl with light white-brown bear grass overlaid design below rim. Repeating motif of large down pointing triangles with ten smaller triangles to the sides. Small bear grass elements show inside.

Culture
Hupa
Material
bear grass and root
Made in
California, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Child's BowlNb652

Round, twined bowl with a slightly flattened bottom. Overlaid horizontal, light white-brown bear grass band around the outside of the basket below the rim. There are repeating sets of three black rectangles, with the centre one below the others, along the band. Single row of twill twining ? at the bottom where it flattens.

Culture
Karuk
Material
bear grass, fern and root
Made in
California, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sifting TrayNb651

Flat, round, twined tray with concentric design bands on the top surface and two sets of two wrapped, raised rings on the bottom and at the rim and over halfway to the centre. Design includes the following: light yellow-white bear grass at the rim and alternating brown background in the third row; and wide band of overlaid bear grass with three repeating band-like motifs, each with similar triangular appendages. Two of these appendages have a diagonal row of black fern stem at one end; single row of background; row of alternating bear grass and background; two rows of bear grass; three rows with evenly alternating rows; and several centre rows that are the background.

Culture
Yurok
Material
bear grass, fern, wood ? and root
Made in
California, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Toggling Harpoon HeadNa1138

Ivory harpoon head with beveled edges and curving sides; diagonal slope across bottom; round open socket hole at bottom; line hole through harpoon head above socket. Blade slit at rounded tip with channel on one side of slit to near centre. Triangular incised line and deeply drilled dot design on all but channeled and bottom surfaces.

Culture
Inuit
Material
walrus tusk
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cooking BasketNb650

Round, twined bowl with an overlaid design band below the rim. Design consists of repeating light yellow-brown bear grass triangles pointed up at the top and pointed down at the bottom with two twill twined rows between of alternating two elements of light yellow-brown bear grass.

Culture
Hupa
Material
bear grass and root
Made in
California, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Harpoon HeadNa1135

Wedge shaped harpoon head with round socket extending in from centre bottom. Line hole at centre is at a right angle to socket hole, meeting it at the top. Channel runs down on either side of line hole. Blade slot cuts across top of rounded head. Bottom has rounded tang on one side. Both sides are slightly convex, longitudinal cracks along tang side.

Culture
Inuit
Material
walrus tusk
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Line Drag HandleNa1134

Part of a seal drag handle in the shape of a seal's head. The back slopes to a flat end. Longitudinal hole drilled into head from back. Two holes through bottom to longitudinal hole (front hole is at an angle). Down curved incised line indicates mouth, notches at nostrils on flattened snout. Round inlaid eyes with central depressions. Mottled brown. Small hole on either side behind and slightly below eyes.

Culture
Inuit
Material
walrus tusk
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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