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Basketry LidD1.517

Basket lid of simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches) with watch-spring construction and single strand loop work rim. Decorated with partial imbrication. Right angle triangles in red/white around rim; triangular shapes staggered with those on rim in black/white. Inner staggered row of "y" shapes in black with stems facing towards the centre. Colour: tan.

Culture
Coast Salish ?
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, dye and cat-tail grass ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basketry LidA2408

Basketry lid of simple coiled work (unsplit stitches) with parallel slat construction. Partially beaded with shapes in black, in staggered rows (eleven in all) on top. Sets of three stepped lines in red on the sides. Rim is beaded in black.

Culture
Coast Salish
Material
cedar root, cherry bark and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketryA4386

Unfinished mat. Plaited bark. Plain twining. Sides are wrapped twined work. Central brown square is three by three mini-squares with various lengthed extensions in one direction. Three light yellow-brown rows are woven upward around the base.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Ahousaht
Material
swamp grass and cedar bark
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Burden BasketA5067

Small rectangular, flared, coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with parallel slat foundation. Imbricated rim inn canary grass with intervals of dark cherry bark stitches. Beaded from rim almost to base in canary grass, with wide vertical row of chevrons, alternating between dark cherry bark and canary grass, one on each side.

Culture
Coast Salish: Sto:lo: Tait
Material
cedar root, canary grass, cherry bark and dye
Made in
Laidlaw, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA5073

Coiled basket (with bifurcated stitches) with looped border on rim and narrow foot. Watch-spring base construction. Imbricated design of two rows of checkerboard squares with either cat-tail grass (?) and red or dark cherry bark, with three continuous horizontal rows in center of basket in cat-tail grass (?) and center of dark cherry bark. Beading on top of looped border in red cherry bark, imbricated bands on base of foot in cat-tail grass and either red or dark cherry bark. Rope handle is tied to either side of basket looped border. Underside of basket has beaded red cherry bark.

Culture
Interior Salish ?
Material
dye, cherry bark, cat-tail grass ? and cedar root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ContainerC626 a-b

A plain round orange-red gourd container (part a). The stopper (part b) is rolled bark with a woven grass design around the sides of yellow, and brown vertical zig zags, and a boar's tusk finial at the top.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
bark, boar tusk, grass and gourd fruit
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskC655

Carved mask attached to headpiece by fibres. Face is painted in geometric designs in white, red, and black. Shells for the eyes. Headpiece has real grey-brown hair at either side covered in white clay and an extended ridge running front to back along the middle, and is built on a frame of strips of red orange-brown wood and bark cloth. Elaborate decoration.

Culture
Western Melanesia
Material
bark, wood, human hair, clay, paint, shell and plant fibre
Made in
New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FanC464

A basketry woven fan with a deltoid leaf shape. The main geometric design consists of one triple row of alternating orange, purple, and orange curving along each side going from the bottom of one side to the top of the other side. Light brown bark background.

Culture
Fijian
Material
fibre, palm leaf, wood and bark
Made in
Vanua Levu, Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BarkC565

Long strip(s) of bark in a coil.

Culture
Fijian
Material
coconut palm bark
Made in
Lau, Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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OrnamentC568

Three boar tusk pieces, almost completely circular in shape. A bunch of bark strips of green and brown are looped around the tusks.

Culture
Fijian
Material
bark and boar tusk
Made in
Vanua Levu, Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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