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Berry BasketD1.504

Oval, narrow flared coil basket (bifurcated stitches). Elongated watch-spring base construction. Imbricated design of vertical striped pattern with connected cross-shapes, rows alternating in black cherry bark with red centers, and red with black centers. Three stripes per side, one per end.

Culture
Interior Salish: Nlaka'pamux
Material
cedar root, cherry bark and dye
Made in
Merritt, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Soul CatcherA150

Five bone soul catchers strung together on a string, carved with both ends open, and stained with red ochre.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
bone, cedar bark and ochre pigment ?
Made in
Kitselas, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Soul CatcherA151

Carved, hollow, cylindrical bone, the centre of which is decorated with crosshatching and dots while the ends have incised lines. Centre is plugged with cedar bark. Attached to a cedar bark chain that has been dyed red.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
bone and cedar bark
Made in
Kitselas, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Baby CarrierA127

Coiled cedar root basketry cradle. Cedar roots are coiled over slats. The top half, at the widest end, is beaded in a checker work design of three upper slats separated by a black horizontal line of cloth. The bottom half is beaded in a geometric design in red and yellow. The top row is imbricated in black cloth and white grass.

Culture
Coast Salish ?
Material
cedar wood, cherry bark, fibre, cedar root and cat-tail grass ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketryA128

Bottle covered with a fitted woven swamp grass sleeve (a) and cap (b); decorated with compound bands of linear patterning around sides and cap in green, purple and yellow. Base: checker work and plain twined weave. Sides and cap: wrapped twined weave.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
aniline dye, cedar bark, swamp grass and glass
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA1896

Birch bark body of basket bent and laced into place with birch twig stitched border around the rim. Overcast with natural, pink, purple aniline dyed root. Zig-zag stitch for joining creates a portion of the design. The overcast stitch is zig-zagged. The dyed root occurs at the ends with bands of natural root on the sides. Darker side of the bark is on the outside.

Culture
Dakelhne ? or Gitxsan ?
Material
birch bark, aniline dye and birch root ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Knitting BasketA1889 a-b

Part (a) Urn shaped coiled work (bifurcated stitches) basket with handles at shoulder and foot at base. Watch-spring lid and base construction; lid with 2" diameter hole in centre, indented slat flange. Imbricated pattern of alternating vertical rows of arrows in either dark cherry and cat-tail grass, or red cherry and cat-tail grass. In between these rows is a smaller row of diamond shapes of red cherry bark and cat-tail grass. Part (b) Lid - 6 double tiered diamond figures in cherry bark and cat-tail, alternating red/cat-tail and black/cat-tail.

Culture
Coast Salish: Sto:lo: Soowahlie
Material
grass, cherry bark, cedar root and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Canoe BailerA1423

Small cedar bark canoe bailer with wooden handle. The outer bark is on the exterior surface and some has been removed from each end where the bark has been folded up and pleated. The ends have been secured to the wooden handle with strips of bark. There is a small hole in the handle near the centre, which goes all the way through.

Culture
Coast Salish: Sto:lo
Material
cedar bark and cedar wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Canoe BailerA1428

Small cedar bark canoe bailer with wooden handle. Outer bark is on the exterior surface, but has been removed from the ends which have been pleated up and tied with strips of bark to a wooden handle. There are flat-ended knobs at each end of the wooden handle, one of them is quite chipped. The bailer is slightly warped, with one end slanting inwards.

Culture
Coast Salish: Quwutsun'
Material
wood and cedar bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model CanoeD3.180

Long canoe that is stitched together at each end and around the outer edge to create tapered ends and a wide opening. Bark on outer surface of canoe has been dyed reddish-brown to expose natural light-brown bark with alternating horizontal patterns of double lines and triangular-shaped designs.

Culture
Mi'kmaq
Material
birch bark and root
Made in
Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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