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Textile with abstract designs and stylized birds in brown and off-white on a navy blue ground. Monograms at each corner inside an eight-pointed star.
Textile depicting a purwa (shadow puppet) figure in elaborate dress with a stylized floral border in off-white on dark blue.
An ivory bracelet. The sides bulge outward and have a flat horizontal bulge around the middle. Has simple small rosette decorations.
Handpainted square piece of fabric from a Javanese batik. The design has geometric motifs in gold and white on black ground. Fabric is mounted on a card.
Undecorated cylindrical container. One end of the bamboo is left open. Handle for hanging the bamboo case at the waist is made by bending an attached branch and securing it with a piece of tied twig.
Cylindrical flared coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with second cylindrical coiled work at center. Imbricated design on outer basket is one horizontal zig-zag, in dark cherry bark, cat-tail grass (?), and red cherry bark, and reverse of material. Bottom row of beading above foot is in cat-tail grass (?). Inner coiled basket has beaded dark cherry bark rim and four beaded rows in cat-tail grass (?), red cherry bark, cat-tail grass (?), and dark cherry bark. Watch-spring base construction. Foot has four rows of beaded cat-tail grass (?), indicating this basket may have been made by a basket maker from Spuzzum, B.C.
Coiled, footed basket with bifurcated stitches. Imbricated vertical design of alternating rows of red and dark cherry bark with cat-tail grass(?). Watch-spring base construction. Repeated parallel holes on surface of rim indicates basket may have had a loop border. Light coloured grass used for beaded imbrication around the foot of the basket.
Part (a) Round urn shaped coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with lid, part (b). Watch-spring base and lid construction, narrow splint flange on lid. Imbricated design in dark and red cherry bark crosses alternating in colour every two vertical rows. Lid continues cross design in two rows of single alternating colours of red and dark cherry bark.
Small coil basket (with bifurcated stitches) with lid and handle. Watch-spring base and lid construction, indented flange on lid. Coiled handle attached with coiled elements on body. Foot of two coiled rows. Imbricated pattern on shoulder of basket in zig-zag shape in red cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?). Sides have bands of alternating dark cherry bark with cat-tail grass (?) and red cherry bark with cat-tail grass (?). Foot has red cherry bark beading. Lid has flower shaped imbrication of one row each red and dark cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?).
Cedar root basket with splint foundation and coiled elements of cedar rootlet. Imbrication in cat-tail, red and black-dyed cherry bark. Simple interlocking coiled work (with bifurcated stitches) parallel coiled base with watch spring coiling at periphery; overcast rim, partial imbrication. Individual unattached diamond figures (continuous pattern around sides). These are tri-colour in black/white/red and red/white/black alternating and are arranged in five staggered rows such that chevron figures are produced in total rather than simple oblique lines of similarly coloured diamonds. Colour: tan.