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Trinket BasketNbz819

Octagonal shaped coiled cedar root basket with an attached lid. Parallel slat base and lid with overcast rims on both the lid and the basket. Red cherry bark beading on every other slat on the lid. Vertically connected chevron shaped designs in cherry bark with canary grass in the centre divided down the centre by a cherry bark line. Two leather hinges on one side attach the lid to the basket with a leather tie on the opposite side.

Culture
Coast Salish: Sto:lo
Material
cedar root, canary grass, skin, cherry bark and wood
Made in
Mission, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thunderbird Headdress686/4 a-c

Small (child's) thunderbird headdress with a curved beak, protruding ears, cedar bark hair, and red and black paint. Inscription on reverse.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Tla-o-qui-aht
Material
cedar wood, cedar bark and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basketry TrayNbz820

Rectangular coiled cedar root tray with parallel wood slat base and walls. Entwined loopwork rim that attaches to overcast handles at each of the ends. Occassional red and black cherry bark imbricated elements on both exterior and interior surfaces.

Culture
Coast Salish
Material
cedar root, dye, cherry bark and cedar wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Box935/2 a-b

Circular birch bark box with fitted lid covered with stitched porcupine quill designs. Sides of box feature orange, brown and white geometric and zigzagging patterns, while the lid is covered with a geometric design with four tree-like figures.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands ?
Material
birch bark, fibre, wood, dye and porcupine quill
Made in
Quebec, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNbz818 a-b

Small, rectangular coiled cedar root basket (part a) with a fitted lid (part b). Parallel slat base for the wall and lid construction. Decorated with beading and imbrication. Beading in red cherry bark on the lid (part b), in two columns, and along the top and the bottom edges of the basket (part a). Two vertical design panels on each of the long sides and one on each end of the basket (part a). These panels are imbricated in canary grass and red cherry bark with the canary grass forming the background and the bark creating large X-shaped designs. The panels are also outlined in red cherry bark also.

Culture
Coast Salish
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, wood and canary grass
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNa1169

Oval birch bark basket that tapers to a square base. Basket is formed from one piece of birch bark and is stitched at both ends. Reinforced wood rim is lashed to body of basket with spruce root--small segments of spruce roots are dyed red. Sides are decorated with a scraped vegetal design of four plants, with crosshatching on one end and the base left undecorated.

Culture
Wet'suwet'en ?
Material
spruce root, wood, birch bark and dye
Made in
Burns Lake, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNa1167

Oval shaped birch bark container with tapered, almost square base; sides flare outwards. Rim reinforced with a bent twig lashed with spruce root. Stitched together at narrower sides with spruce root. Dark inner bark on the outside of the container has been scraped away in places to form a design of lighter colour. Design consists of two horizontal bands, each band consists of five scraped rows; two outer rows with triangular motif extending outwards, three inner rows straight and narrow. Note: bottom band on one side has only two inner rows. Rim has seven to eight wraps of green coloured spruce root at endpoints and two to three wraps of red coloured spruce root divided by two wraps of natural spruce root at midpoints.

Culture
Gitxsan ?
Material
dye, wood, spruce root and birch bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNa1166

Oval shaped birch bark basket at rim tapering to a square base. Decorative design covers entire exterior surface, except bottom. Design consists of a series of three horizontal repeated motifs of alternating dark brown waves and lines with light brown scraped waves and lines. The sewn side seams form an inverted "y" shape. Seams secured by spruce root stitches. Red and yellow fibre is woven through top of lashed rim--only traces remain.

Culture
Gitxsan ?
Material
wood, spruce root, birch bark, dye ? and fibre ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNa1165

Oval birch bark basket with square base. Body of basket is stitched together at the two ends with spruce root. Stitches seen on both interior and exterior. Decoration is scraped on side. Pattern consists of three stripes bordered by bands having triangles side by side pointing out. The pattern is repeated seven times around body of basket. Rim is of wood lashed to basket walls by spruce root. Four 7 cm sections of rim are decorated with red cedar bark (?) strands woven in plain checker. Between decorated sections, wood is covered with dark brown red cedar bark (?) lashed on with spruce root in "x" patterns; three sections have three "x"s each and the fourth section has four "x"s, two broken.

Culture
Gitxsan ?
Material
cedar bark ?, wood, spruce root, birch bark and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNbz697 a-b

Rectangular carrying basket and lid (part b), and handles. Slat base construction with split cedar root sewn around it, in coiled technique. Basket has red cherry bark and light-coloured grass imbrication of a downward pointing arrow design on all four sides, two on each long side and one at each short end. Beading in red cherry bark on the foot of the basket. Lid top and sides are beaded with red cherry bark and an outward pointing arrow at either side of the top.

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