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Bentwood BoxA3573 a-b

Tall square bentwood box (part a) with flat lid (part b). The front and back are painted red and black in different Northwest Coast stylized distributive designs. The front figure has bird-like features with a central circle for a beak and talons along the outer edge. The back also has bird-like features with a crest made of u and split u-forms. The side panels have a faded red design of an ovoid with two u-forms attached near the bottom left corner. The box is pegged together at the side seam and on the bottom.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
cedar wood, paint and metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bentwood BoxA3581

Bentwood box with sides decoratively adzed in rows.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
cedar wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Box DrumA17091

Box drum composed of bent cedar and painted in black, red and white with a copper on each opposite side and an eagle on each opposite end. An indented circle is carved into each end wall on the inside of the drum.

Culture
Coast Salish: Quwutsun'
Material
cedar wood, metal and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Speaker's StaffA17151

Staff with iron arrow at base end. Staff head is sun figure face. Light blue around eyes, on bottom lip and above top lip, red-brown border around face and same colour points around head.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
iron metal, cedar wood, metal and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bentwood BowlA5322

Low bentwood bowl; the last corner and bottom are pegged. The undulating rim is inlaid with operculum shells. Rim is convex and concave at ends and sides. Distributive animal design painted on four sides in black and red.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
operculum shell, cedar wood, paint and metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bentwood BoxA4370

Undecorated cedar bentwood box, last corner and bottom nailed. Six holes bored into nailed side. Two sides are shorter in height. "Raley" printed on one side near top.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
cedar wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA4108

Rectangular-shaped open-work basket with weft strands alternating in direction with each row. Overcast rim. Four string handles. Undecorated.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
cedar root, fibre, spruce root ? and cedar wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Grass Splitter ToolA4394

Small rectangular piece of wood with small notches cut into it for tiny blades.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Ahousaht
Material
cedar wood and metal
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bentwood ChestA8211 a-b

Rectangular bentwood box (part a) with lid (part b). The front and back are painted red and black in different designs. The front and back have complex designs. The sides have the same motif of vertical sets of ovoids and u-forms. Designs painted in black and red with stylized forms. The lid has decorative brass studs on three edges; the studs on the front are all gone, except one.

Culture
Coast Salish: Quwutsun'
Material
brass metal and red cedar wood
Made in
Bella Bella, British Columbia, Canada and 'Qvuqvai, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Totem PoleA8212

Totem pole carved from cedar wood. The bottom of the pole has a human holding a child, followed by a bird figure, and topped with a human, falling from the sky. All of the figures have a black circle in tapering oval eyes with either red or black brows above and a red mouth. The bird has three-feathered wings with circles, ovoids, and split u's. The ears of the humans at the bottom each have a frontal face in them. The feet of the upside down human at the top are bent toward the front of the pole.

Culture
Nisga'a
Material
cedar wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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