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Basket1435/29 a-b

Circular light yellow-brown woven basket with a fitted, sloped lid with raised knob. Top and bottom edges of basket are encircled with bands of purple colour with yellow patterning. The centre of the basket's sides feature a repeated red and green floral design. The knob on the lid is a dark purple-brown and is encircled by a green and red spiral of colour.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
swamp grass, dye and cedar bark
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basketry Vase1435/28

Coiled cedar root basket with root foundation. Watchspring base with foot. Basket widens towards the top and then narrows to create a rim. Imbricated plant designs and butterflies with pink and orange accents.

Culture
Interior Salish: Secwepemc
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, dye and grass
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa Cloth1448/17

Long narrow decorated tapa (masi) with designs in black and brown. The design is two blocks (pairs) wide and seven long, each pair containing similar flower-like central designs with wide geometric borders around the whole set of blocks. The flowers are of two types, one with oval petals and the other with diamond-shaped petals. One side has a thin striped fringe, the other has a border of lengthwise lines. The ends are serrated. The cloth is made of two pieces attached together; one is thinner than the other.

Culture
Fijian
Material
mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa Cloth1448/16

Long rectangular tapa cloth with geometric designs in brown and black on natural coloured ground. In the centre are squares with two floral motifs in natural on a divided brown and black ground. Around the squares are many bands with triangular and diamond motifs in natural and black. The bottom edge has a thin, black and white fringe. The ends are cut in a serrated pattern.

Culture
Fijian
Material
mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa Cloth1448/15

Long, rectangular white tapa cloth (masi), undecorated with fringed borders.

Culture
Fijian
Material
mulberry bark
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dance Skirt1448/14

Dance skirt made from a layer of leaves and plant segments(?) at the waistband, under which is a slightly longer layer of dyed purple bark, and finally a longer layer of grass.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
leaf ?, bark, plant, dye and grass
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNbz828

Oblong coiled cedar root basket with overcast rim. Parallel slat base and wall construction. Decorated with vertical, imbricated columns in cat-tail grass with red cherry bark designs (cluster of flies pattern).

Culture
Coast Salish
Material
cedar root, wood, cat-tail grass and cherry bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket1431/9 a-b

Brown-red coloured birch bark container with lid. The container is wider at the bottom, has rectangular bark panels connected to each other side-by-side by vertical bark stitching, and narrows towards a protruding red-brown bark-wrapped rim. The lid consists of a round piece of bark with a scalloped edge over top of a circular bark panel and fastened by bark stitches.

Culture
Arctic America ?
Material
birch bark and root
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNbz827

Rectangular basket with a convex lid hinged by three hide straps. Design consists of lighter coloured dashes (grass) on a natural brown background. A horizontal row of black bark dashes also goes around the bottom and the top, with red bark around the middle.

Culture
Coast Salish
Material
cedar root, cedar wood, cherry bark, grass and rawhide skin
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNbz831

Rectangular coiled cedar root basket with overcast handle. Imbricated geometric design in two rows around sides.

Culture
Coast Salish: Musqueam
Material
cedar root, grass, dye and cherry bark
Made in
Mount Currie, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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