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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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Bentwood BoxA4371

Tall square bentwood box with black and red painted Northwest Coast stylized distributive designs. The front and back have complex designs; the sides have two sets of thinly outlined black ovoids. The box is pegged together at the side seam and on the bottom. Base is split and joined with nails. There is no lid.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
paint, metal and red cedar wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basketry Tray1382/2

Flat, circular woven tray with raised sides and two small handles on the sides. Bottom of tray features three concentric circular bands of a repeating triangular pattern in red and yellow-white, and black and yellow-white.

Culture
“Great Basin & Plateau” ?
Material
cedar root and bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Totem PoleA50038

Pole of T’st’entsit. Carved in high relief out of cedar wood. Crest figures from top to bottom: mythical woman; Kulus (related to Thunderbird); sisiyutl (double-headed serpent), its horns now missing; human form of sisiyutl, holding a copper; Gwa’wina (raven). The large protruding beak of the raven has been attached. The entire surface is painted in black, white, green and red.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
red cedar wood and paint
Made in
Fort Rupert, British Columbia, Canada and Tsaxis, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Interior House PostA50027

Wood house post carved in high relief; crescent shaped in cross section. Depicted from top down are: sea lion in profile with bared teeth; bird with a circular head and a downturned mouth; whale in profile in the talons of the bird; bear with protruding ears. All of the figures are carved within the pole.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
red cedar wood
Made in
Fort Rupert, British Columbia, Canada and Tsaxis, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNb22.86

Round basket with flared walls. Base and walls are decorated. Base has 2 bands of dark brown with the outer most band extending up the wall to an openwork band, with a third brown band above. Ten diagonal design of red and faded pink stitches are on the 2 brown bands on wall. Two re-shaped handles extend upwards from rim. Reinforced rim appears to be braided.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
cedar bark, grass ? and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNb7.328

Twined round basket with a square base and a circular mouth. Base is plaited with four rows of brown twining demarcating the base from the sides. Walls in plain twining are decorated with two rows of red-brown twining and eight geometric designs in the shape of orange and red parallelograms. Rim is folded over and secured with a row of twining.

Culture
Tsimshian ?
Material
grass, dye, palm leaf and cedar bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hunclee-quilasA1535

Wooden northern style canoe with a Haida design painted on the outside. The canoe is painted black with Northwest Coast stylized designs on the ends in red, white and black. Depicted on each side is a Killer whale with its head and dorsal fin on the prow and the body and tailfins on the stern. There is a red border around the upper edges. The ends sweep upwards. The prow is grooved to hold a harpoon or mast and has a vertical fin to cut through waves. The interior is also painted black and has three rectangular bench seats.

Culture
Haisla
Material
red cedar wood and paint
Made in
Kitamaat, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNb7.327

Flat, bag-shaped, cedar bark basket. Walls of the basket flare outward from the square base. Walls are decorated with brown-black diagonal strips alternating with medium brown strips forming a pattern of diagonal bands across the basket. With the rim which is folded over with an open-work edging. Along the narrow sides, a two ply twine is sewed into the basket in an "h" shape down each side a double two ply twine continues under one side of the base. A two ply piece of twine is attached to the top edge of one side of the basket.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
cedar bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNb7.326

Rectangular shaped, flattened basket, with decorated walls and two handles. Base in checker work plaiting with seven rows of yellow-brown decoration. Sides are decorated with six bands of diagonal plaiting in yellow-brown and black. Decorative band around the top of the basket in light brown and dark brown. Twining rim appears braided. Handles, three ply twisted cedar, are slotted through the sides one-third of the way down and knotted inside.

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