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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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Totem PoleA8381

Small totem pole of eagle sitting abovea bear. The bear is holding, and appears to be eating, an upside down copper.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
cedar wood
Made in
'Yalis (Alert Bay), British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Head RingA8332

Ring-shaped frame of thin branches tied with strips of cloth. This frame is wrapped or bound with strips of red-dyed cedar bark.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, fibre, cedar bark and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2269

Coiled cedar root basket with elongated watch-spring base construction and braided border. Decorated with beading and partial imbrication; four bands of diamond checkerboard figures (each with centre rectangle in a different colour from each of the outer rectangles). Red exterior with cat-tail and black centre or vice versa; they are mostly arranged so that they are diagonally similar except for top row. Colour: tan.

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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BasketA1835

Open work basket with a rectangular base, soft sides, and a oval-shaped rim. Base is plaited. Cross-warp twined weave alternating with checker work. The weft of the checker work (excluding base) is black cedar bark. Braided rim. In the plaited areas the weft strand is dyed black, giving an alternating pattern of dyed and natural coloured stitches in a 1:1 ratio.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
cedar bark and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA1836

Round basker with a flat, circular base, flaring sides and a zigzagging black, red and white pattern around the sides. Simple interlocking coiled work (bifurcated stitches); watch-spring base construction looped and braided (double-coil) rim; partial imbrication.

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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Lunch BasketA1839

Rectangular basket with simple interlocking coiled work, bifurcated stitches, parallel slat lid and base construction with graduated reinforcement stitches and 'twilled' effect on lid. Basket also has a two coiled handles and is decorated with beading. The lid has beading in black-dyed cherry bark in a 2:1 ratio along the circumference of the lid. The body has cat-tail grass at the top (one row per slat, in a 2:2 ratio). Three other slats have beaded decoration (3 rows per slat) in black and in red cherry bark in a 2:2 ratio creating a checkerboard pattern. Lid is attached to basket with thong hinges.

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