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BasketA2323

Rectangular coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with short foot. Elongated watch-spring base construction. Imbricated design of flowering plant, outlined in red cherry bark with grass, two on long side, one on short. Foot has two alternating rows of stitches in red cherry bark forming a short pyramid, two on long side, one on short.

Culture
Interior Salish ?
Material
cedar root, cat-tail grass ? and cherry bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2324

Rectangular flared coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with elongated watch-spring base construction. Imbricated design of squares with lines through centre, four in dark cherry bark and grass on long sides and two in red cherry bark and grass on short side. Rim is beaded with red and black cherry bark. Base has one row of red beading.

Culture
Interior Salish ?
Material
cedar root, dye, cat-tail grass ? and cherry bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketD1.493

Rectangular, tan-coloured basket that flares upward and outward. Simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches) with watch-spring base construction and parallel slat sides. Rawhide loop and one string loop are at either upper corner of one long side with another string loop in the middle of the upper portion of the other long side. Decorated with partial beading, every fourth row is beaded with three rows of black, one of red, four rows of black, one of cat-tail, and one row of red cherry bark.

Culture
Interior Salish: Nlaka'pamux
Material
cedar root, cat-tail grass ?, dye, rawhide skin and fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2356

Coiled work (bifurcated stitches) watch-spring base construction. Imbricated pattern of checkered diamond shapes in cherry bark and grass.

Culture
Interior Salish ?
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, cat-tail grass ? and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketD1.494

Large round coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with watch-spring base construction, and a foot of five coiled rows. Partially imbricated with horizontal bands of two red cherry bark ribbons with black crosses, and cat-tail grass (?) centres, alternating with vertical black cherry bark bands, in between. Bottom two rows, which include foot, are two ribbons of cat-tail grass (?) with red cherry bark crosses with cat-tail (?) centers, alternating with vertical red cherry bark bands. Foot is partially imbricated with red cherry bark crosses with cat-tail grass (?) center, alternating with vertical bands of red cherry bark.

Culture
Interior Salish: Nlaka'pamux
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, cat-tail grass ? and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2358

Undecorated, u-shaped, openwork twined basket that is rectangular along the top rim. The direction of the stitches change with every other row. The rim is overcast. The base is plaited with double strands.

Culture
Northwest Coast ?
Material
cedar root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model Totem PoleA6577

Kwakwaka'wakw style model pole (replica?). Figures are a grizzly bear holding a human below, with a thunderbird with outstretched wings on top. Colours used are black, red and white. Paper labels adhered to back.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw ?
Material
cedar wood and paint
Made in
Japan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowA8393

Arrow with a double-barbed copper point that has two other barbs that point outwards perpendicular to the shaft of the arrow tip at the base of the arrow head shaft. The shaft is wrapped with cedar (?) at the arrow end. Plain cedar shaft with remains of feathers bound to shaft at butt end with off-white thread. Further down the shaft there is also a band of thin dark brown fibre wound around feather remains.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
copper metal, cherry bark and cedar wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Head Ring FrontletA8391

Cedar bark head ring with a carved frontlet of a sun figure in high relief. Frontlet has a broad white face, heavy black eyebrows, a green band painted across the eyes, and is encircled by a green ring; alternating squares of abalone shell and mirror are set into the green ring around the face. Cedar bark head ring is lined with cloth and features three large squares of abalone shell fastened to the outside at evenly spaced intervals.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
paint, wood, cedar bark, silver alloy metal ?, glass, cotton fibre, abalone shell and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bentwood BoxA8390 a-b

Bentwood box (part a) and lid (part b) with one side pf lid raised. Box has abstract Northwest Coast design elements painted on all sides, in red and black. Cedar bark rope is tied around the box. Killer whale and sisiutl-like designs in black on the top of lid and the raised portion.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
cedar bark, wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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