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BasketNb11.321 a-b

Cylindrical basket (a) with rounded sides and a fitted lid (b); lid has a central knob-like handle and is held in place by a cedar flange attached around the upper rim of the basket. Design consists of two purple bands at bottom and top with seven purple geometric designs around the middle. Design on lid consists of four sets of six narrow bands of purple, light red and yellow, as well as four sets of five narrow purple bands; three narrow purple bands surround knob.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
cedar bark, grass and dye
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketryNb11.234 a-b

Stout, green glass bottle covered with a twined white swamp grass sleeve (a); cork stopper with a twined cap (b). Checker work cedar bark base. Dyed swamp grass in bands as decoration: two bands of beading; whaling canoe, whale, and bird in blue.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
glass, cork bark, dye, cedar bark and grass
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketryNb11.233

Rounded, green glass bottle with a narrow neck and a twined basketry cover. Bottle serves as mould for basket shape. Has cedar bark checker work base. Swamp grass twining covers entire bottle. Dyed swamp grass decorates basket in bands. Church, steeple and trees on one side; undistinguishable design on the other side.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
grass, glass, dye and cedar bark
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNb11.232 a-b

Short, cylindrical twined basket (a) with lid (b); lid is flat, fitted, and features a knob-like handle in the centre. Repeated imagery around basket's sides of whaling canoes and thunderbirds atop whales in black, red, yellow, purple and green. Multicoloured swirling design around coloured knob in centre of lid, as well as bands of colour around the lid's sides: red, purple, green and yellow. Swamp grass over cedar bark foundation. Overlaid twining decoration in coloured swamp grass. Lid is held in place by a cedar bark flange attached around the upper rim of the basket.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
cedar bark, dye and grass
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket LidNb11.231

Small circular lid. Wrapped twining; swamp grass over cedar bark foundation. Coloured decoration in wrapped twining; concentric designs in purple, yellow and green.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
dye, cedar bark and grass
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNb11.222 a-b

Miniature, cylindrical basket woven with black-purple and yellow bands on natural swamp grass; three black geometric designs around the sides. Lid (part b) for basket has blue and yellow bands on natural grass with a black circle in the centre. The centre of the base shows strips of cedar bark.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
swamp grass, cedar bark and dye
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNb11.320 a-b

Small cylindrical basket (a) with slightly flaring sides capped by a rounded, fitted lid (b). The basket's sides and top of the lid are ringed by a repeating dark blue geometric motif; sides and lid are trimmed with a multicoloured stripe of dark blue, yellow and red; centre of lid is covered with a purple circle ringed with yellow and red. Cedar bark flange of looped warp strands protruding from the upper rim of basket holds lid in place.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
grass, cedar bark and dye
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNb11.319 a-b

Small cylindrical basket (a) with a flat, fitted lid (b). Wrapped twined rim and flange of cedar bark with warp strand loops. Sides are wrapped twined grass and base is grass and cedar bark plain twining with checker work centre. Geometric design on one side of basket in purple and orange. Two bands of green around bottom. Lid is wrapped twined with green circle in centre surrounded by a blue geometric motif. Two green bands around rim of lid.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
cedar bark, grass and dye
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNb11.318 a-b

Small, cylindrical basket (a) with flat, fitted lid (b); cedar flange attached around the upper rim of basket holds lid in place. Designs around sides of basket: four birds in blue-purple and compound band of blue-purple and yellow around the bottom edge. Lid of basket features concentric rings of blue-purple linear designs.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
grass, cedar bark and dye
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNb11.317

Oval basket (a) with twined grass rim and cedar bark flange of looped cedar warp strands. Sides are wrapped twined grass; cedar bark and grass base of plain twined weave with checker work centre. Design consists of two light red bands at base of basket; a dark blue, followed by an orange, dark blue and orange bands. The bottom of the basket has one row of purple twining. Lid (b) is wrapped twined with purple and yellow geometric design around red and yellow oval design. Bands around rim of lid are a row each of orange, dark blue, orange and dark blue.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
dye, cedar bark and grass
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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