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Oblong basket made of birch bark--corners sewn with root or wood strips. Rim is wound with thin strips of root (?) and interlaced with fibre. A design has been scratched onto the sides, revealing a lighter shade of bark; exterior design is geometric with a linear triangle pattern covering all four sides.
Round, cylindrical, coiled basket (a) with flat, fitted lid (b). Has bifurcated stitches. Design is imbricated thin, horizontal bands of black, yellow, red stripes. Lid is also coiled and imbricated.
Open, rectangular basket with a cedar foundation (checker work base; side strips). Sea-grass twined over sides. Side rows first, second and third from the bottom dyed green; rows first second and third from the rim dyed blue; centre five rows dyed blue.
Round, coiled cedar root basket ( a) with slat construction. Imbricated star design in red and white around sides. Coiled slat lid (b) with beaded cherry bark.
Large round open, coiled basket (with bifurcated stitches). Handles on either side. Imbricated design of checkerboard diamonds in dark cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?), alternating with outlined diamonds in either red or dark cherry bark with same in center, with cat-tail grass (?). Beaded foot with natural colour cat-tail grass (?) indicates basket is from Spuzzum, according to family of basket maker(s) from that area.
Quiver made of rolled piece of bark (part a), capped at either end with skin. One cap is fixed in place, and one is removable (part b). A doubled loop of strong rawhide is bound to quiver as handle by means of sinew. The centre of the quiver also bound with sinew.
Square, open, straight-sided, sharp-shouldered basket with a square collared rim. Rim is made of two strips of reinforced cedar bark. Base is cedar bark checker work. Natural colour with faded brown and red diamond pattern at mid-point. At rim is band of brown with red. Visible only on the interior are thin bands of purple, yellow and green at the shoulder and base; these have faded to yellowish discolourations on the exterior of the basket. Diagonal 'seam' on the body of the basket, on one side where the diamond pattern is irregularly shaped.
Rectangular woven basket with an attached flap-like lid. At front edge of flat lid is red grass tie. At the rim of basket the ends have bowed out leaving a gap between edge of rim and lid at each end of the basket. Bottom of basket consists of three wide strips of cedar bark weft plaited with thin strips of cedar bark warp. Natural colour with three equidistant bands of geometric designs. At mid-point of basket is large scale red geometric design. Lid has horizontal red stripes. Mid-point of flat lid has wide blue-purple strip held in place by cedar bark warps. Edges of basket finished by twining and twill twining.
Circular, open basket with a straight-sided cylinder shape. Natural colour; base has brown cedar bark checker work centre surrounded by circular twining. Three equidistant decorative bands; one at rim, one at mid-point, and one at base. Each one is a small scale geometric design. Rim has band of dark blue/red with natural colour geometric design. Mid-point band is blue/green with natural horizontal and diagonal design. Base has band of dark blue/red with faded yellow geometric design similar to band on rim.
Round, straight-sided, sharp-shouldered basket with a reinforced hoop rim holding a flat, fitted lid (part b) in place. Cedar bark foundation with grass twining. Rim edged with double row of twining. Natural colour with very dark purple and yellow band at base of basket and at base of lid. Sides of basket and lid are very finely woven.