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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.
Lashing rope made from twined cedar bark tied with 17 knots, which form a rectangular shape.
Round, wrapped twined basket (a) with lid (b). Base is plain twining with small cedar rectangle at centre, row of twining in alternating purple and light yellow-brown demarcates base from wall. Walls decorated with one purple row at base, faded purple geometric zigzag design in middle of basket, two rows of purple separated by row of light yellow-brown at top edge. Rim is faded purple wrapped twining. Lid is round with knob and has cedar bark inner rim. Row of purple wrapped twining between inner rim and undersurface of lid. Decoration consists of concentric circles from knob, one row purple, one light yellow-brown, one row purple, eight purple geometric designs; one row purple, one light yellow-brown on outer edge, knob decorated with light red and light green, two rows light red around base. Inner rim has cedar bark woven through narrow cedar strips, finished with braiding.
Large rectangular bentwood dish with an undulating rim and painted designs in black and red, on sides and ends. Wide red band around rim is faded. The dish has three kerfed corners and is pegged together with 7 nails at the fourth corner. The base is pegged to the sides with nails.
Red cedar neck ring consisting of triple strand twisted rope. The top and bottom have fibre twine wrapped around. The sides have strips of cedar and twine wrapped around, attaching smaller twisted cedar strands that dangle down. One side has 21 strands, the other has 26. The ring is oval shaped.
Rectangular, handbag-like carrying basket with twisted cedar handles attached to the upper rim opposite each other. Base is cedar bark checker work overlaid with grass; two wide cedar bark bands; grass faced wrapped twining band in the middle with designs in light red, orange, purple and green of canoe, whale, birds and geometric floral motifs.
Rectangular, green glass bottle with bulbous bottom, squared middle, bulbous top and slender cylindrical neck; bottle is entirely covered with a woven basketry sleeve (a) and cap (b). Cedar bark and grass base in plain twining and central checker work. Geometric design around bulbous bottom and top; four dark blue birds between dark blue and purple bands and eight purple parallelograms on squared middle. Two purple birds between parallelograms on neck. Tightly fitting lid with purple sunburst design.
Tray composed of coiled round dish with handle and flat rim. The tray has four pointed spout-like indents along the edge. The rim and handle edges are braided. The handle is made of two separate two-coil strands which are tied together along the middle of the handle. The base of the tray is coiled and has circular bands of imbrication in red and black cherry bark and dyed grass. The tray has one coil foot which is beaded with black cherry bark.
Canoe shaped coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with single coil seat inside the canoe; has small prow with single coil loop extending from below prow to base of basket. The top rim is braided with grass. Imbricated pattern in three rows of three stitch intervals, alternating between red and black cherry bark.
Coiled tea cup-shaped basket (bifurcated stitches) with coiled loop handle on the side. Beaded in cherry bark in three horizontal bands at top rim, middle and base.