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BasketNa1164

Oval, birch bark basket with squared bottom. Body of basket stitched together at two points with spruce root. Decoration is scraped into bark. Rim reinforced with wood and lashed to body with spruce root, and four pieces of fabric. Two pieces are blue (4 cm and 4.4 cm long) and two are red (4 cm and 4.2 cm long). Fabric is secured by crossed pieces of spruce root on each end. Beneath lashing on rim are remains of pink and purple yarn (?). There are two bands of decoration, about two cm apart, scraped into bark of body. Each band consists of three thin lines. Top lines in both bands have triangles side by side, bases about 1.2 cm - 1.5 cm apart, pointing up. Bottom lines have triangles pointing down. Centre lines have no pattern on them.

Culture
Gitxsan ?
Material
birch bark, cellulose, wood and spruce root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNa1163

Basket with oval mouth that tapers to a square base. Spruce root (?) is used to stitch the bark together and to finish the rim by lashing a reinforcing strip of wood to the upper edge using a series of repeatedly increasing and decreasing lengths of stitch (up to 1 cm) to form a jagged pattern. A scraping technique is used to decorate the basket in horizontal bands of light and dark. Pattern consists of three dark horizontal bands at the top followed by a repetition of a wider band saw-toothed on both upper and lower edges and two narrow horizontal bands; this is repeated four times. The decoration does not quite match on both sides (on one side, the last two horizontal bands do not appear). The top of the rim has the remains of a red thread flanked on both sides by a green thread that was woven into the spruce stitching.

Culture
Gitxsan ?
Material
birch bark, wool fibre ?, wood and spruce root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNa1162

Oval birch-bark basket or container with sides tapering to a square base. One piece of bark is folded and stitched at two ends with spruce root. The reinforced wood rim is lashed to body of basket with spruce root. Rim is decorated with red dyed spruce root wrapped six to eight times at centre of each side and green dyed spruce root at each of the four approximate corners. In between the dyed areas dark brown dyed spruce root which is interwoven with lashing creating a checkered effect. The walls of the basket are decorated by a horizontal scraped design, the design consists of six bands. Each band has a centre line bordered by two notched lines with the notches pointing away from each other. There are two pencil marks on the upper interior side wall.

Culture
Gitxsan
Material
wood, spruce root, birch bark and crabapple bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNa1161

Oblong, brown birch bark basket with an oval-shaped top and a rectangular bottom. Bark is bent and laced into place, with a twig splint around the rim overcast with thin strips of root; decorative bands of dark crabapple bark (?) beading are featured along the rim in several spots. Geometric and linear patterns are scratched onto the exterior sides, revealing a lighter shade of bark.

Culture
Gitxsan ?
Material
wood, spruce root, birch bark and crabapple bark ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNa1170

Birch bark basket with an oval-shaped mouth and a rectangular base. One piece of birch bark folded up with spruce root stitching visible inside and out at four corners. Same design scraped on outside of basket on three sides--three central lines with four upward diagonal lines, three triangles on two middle lines. On fourth side design has a central floral motif with diagonal lines on either side and with attached triangles on two diagonals. Design on base is rectangular, lines with attached triangles in two panels. Stitched and lashed spruce root rim with some lashing dyed red-brown in centre of each of four sides. Rim decorated with beading on each corner.

Culture
Gitxsan ?
Material
wood, spruce root, birch bark and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNd606

Basket with with four sides that taper inward at the base; made with uneven rectangular coiled cedar root construction. The bottom is constructed of cedar slats and the sides are cedar splints, all coiled with cedar root. Red and black cherry bark beading in horizontal bands on the four sides.

Culture
Interior Salish: Nlaka'pamux
Material
cedar wood, cedar root and cherry bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Baby CarrierNbz800 a-b

Coiled cedar root basketry cradle (part a) with slat foundation and sides. Cradle is rounded at the higher, wider proximal end and is tapered and narrow at the distal end. Fully beaded overcast rim. Remainder of the cradle is plain on the inside and decorated with beading and imbrication on the outside. Rim pattern has mainly canary grass with several repeats of alternating cherry bark and grass. There are seven side coiled rows. First two rows repeat a pattern of closely spaced grass chevrons alternating with wider spaced red or dark brown cherry bark chevrons. Rows three and four repeat above pattern in alternating areas. Rows five and six feature three vertical red cherry bark lines alternating with a darker diamond or x-shaped pattern. Row seven is undecorated. No foot. Plain coiled bottom. Tumpline or carrying strap (part b) with wool wefts and multiple element warps is weft-faced plain weave in a light white-brown and red zigzag pattern. On each end of the strap, there is a machine-stitched, hide backed strip of plaid material which has a shell button on the strap end and a button hole at the other. Each end is buttoned over a strip of hide which is tied on each side of the cradle just below the rim with small strips of hide. There is a small piece of cordage tied to one side.

Culture
Coast Salish: Sto:lo
Material
cedar wood, cedar bark, canary grass, skin, shell, fibre, wool fibre, cherry bark and cedar root
Made in
Harrison Lake, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskNb11.223

The shape of the mask is like a high triangle, two planes intersecting on the median of the face. The heavy eyebrows are painted black, but are not raised. The brow slopes and projects sharply above the nose. Each eye is set in a concave orb in the mask. The eye is made up of a painted white ring surrounding a round hole (2 cm. in diameter, 2 mm deep). The hooked nose is long and narrow and merges with the backswept cheek planes. Up-thrusted narrow nostrils are painted orange. The mouth, encircled by a concave recess, is formed by full, protruding lips, drawn back slightly separated and painted orange. Along the top edge of the mask extend strands of black hair shredded and twisted cedar bark strands, and grey-white feathers. Inside the mask is a leather frame to fit the head.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Tla-o-qui-aht
Material
yellow cedar wood, hair, cedar bark, adhesive, metal, leather skin, fibre, feather and paint
Made in
Clayoquot, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNbz705 a-b

Large rectangular basket with a lid (part b). Basket is made of slat construction with a 2 cm indented foot. Decorated with an imbricated downward pointing arrowhead design in black and red cherry bark and a light-coloured grass, three on each long side and one on each short end. Top slat coil has red cherry bark beading and a 2 cm lip. Sides of the lid (part b) have black cherry bark beading and the top has black cherry bark arrowhead imbrication.

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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BasketNa1168

Rectangular bottomed container with gently expanding walls to an oval rim. The wooden rim is lashed on with spruce root. Four pieces of green-blue cellulose cloth are also woven into the rim. Purple and pink pieces are beaded into the lashing. To make the walls of the container the bark has been folded and stitched along two sides with spruce root. The walls have horizontal scraped decorative patterns with triangles on four of the lines and two lines separating each band--the triangles have faded. On the bottom of the container are two bands of four lines diagonally crossed.

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