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Basket2911/11

Rectangular cedar basket with two handles. The basket is straight sided, but flared slightly toward the top. Two long wrapped handles are attached on both sides. The basket is made up of cedar slats wound with cedar root, alternating with openwork areas. The base has a checkerboard pattern of imbrication, which is partially broken off.

Culture
Coast Salish: Squamish
Material
cedar wood, cedar root and cherry bark
Made in
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket2911/17

Rectangular cedar basket with attached lid. Imbricated inverted triangles in dark red, black and light brown decorate each side. The lid is attached to the basket by two hide thongs on one of the longer sides. It is flat with a slightly raised edge and a wrapped and braided half circle handle at the centre also attached with leather thongs. The lid has an inner rim that sits inside the basket, and the top is decorated with several lines of imbrication down the centre and an encircling line around the edge.

Culture
Coast Salish: Squamish
Material
cedar wood, cedar root, cherry bark, grass and rawhide skin
Made in
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket2911/15

Rectangular basket. The sides flare slightly toward the rim. The construction is cedar root wrapped over a slat structure. The basket is decorated with a series of imbricated open triangles in dark red and light brown, with black included in the bottom. Small areas of imbrication in dark red can be seen along the base.

Culture
Coast Salish: Squamish
Material
cedar wood, cedar root, cherry bark and grass
Made in
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket2911/12 a-b

Coiled, circular basket with lid. The basket flares slightly up toward the rim. It is decorated with thin diagonal stripes of imbrication in red and black with small areas of light brown. The base has an encircling strip of alternating red imbrication. The lid is round with a raised globular knob and has thin lines of black and red imbrication, radiating out from the knob.

Culture
Coast Salish: Squamish
Material
cedar wood, cedar root and cherry bark
Made in
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket2911/9

Rectangular cedar basket with two side handles. Basket is made of cedar slats with root wrapping. Two inverted triangles of dark brown and red imbrication decorate each long side, while an inverted triangle of red and white imbrication decorated each short end. There are a few bars of Imbrication also embellishes the base. The basket is topped with several rows of wrapped looping in a loose triangle pattern, each culminating in a long, wrapped, semicircular handle.

Culture
Coast Salish: Squamish
Material
cedar wood, cedar root, cherry bark and grass
Made in
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket2911/8 a-c

Rounded cedar basket with lid. The basket is flat at the back, rounded at front and sides, and flaring from the rear corners toward the front. The sides are vertically straight. The lid (part b) was at one time attached by two hide thongs at the back, which remain. A handle (part c) was once attached to the front curve of the basket, and a long leather thong that tied the basket closed hangs from the front just under the rim. The lid has a leather receiving loop for the thong. The top of the lid and bottom of the basket are decorated with large imbricated diamonds, while the sides have several smaller imbricated diamonds.

Culture
Coast Salish: Squamish
Material
cedar wood, cedar root, cherry bark, rawhide skin and canary grass
Made in
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket2911/5

Rectangular basketry tray, made of woven cedar root over a cedar wood base structure. The tray has a wrapped handle on both ends. The interior base of the tray has an imbricated diamond pattern in the centre, made of dyed dark red, black and light brown bark, with rectangles of dark red imbrication in each corner. Along the outside edges are small panels of the dark red imbrication.

Culture
Coast Salish: Squamish
Material
cedar wood, cedar root, cherry bark and grass ?
Made in
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket2911/2 a-b

Rectangular cedar basket with lid. The construction is cedar root wrapped over a slat structure. The basket is decorated with a central imbricated motif on each side, red and white on the long sides, and black and white on the short sides and lid. Short double lines of red imbrication can be seen around the lip. The lid is flat, with an interior rim that fits inside the basket mouth.

Culture
Coast Salish: Squamish
Material
cedar wood, cedar root, grass and cherry bark
Made in
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket2911/3

Round, coiled cedar basket. Basket sides are slightly curved, flaring slightly from base to shoulder, where it indents toward the mouth. A pattern of imbricated crosses in white and black or white and dark red is spaced evenly around the outer surface.

Culture
Coast Salish: Squamish
Material
cedar wood, cedar root, cherry bark and grass ?
Made in
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket2911/6

Rectangular basketry tray of wrapped slat construction. The tray has a small wrapped handle on the upper edge at both ends. The interior base of the tray has a geometric decorative pattern of dark red imbricated diamonds, and there are small panels of imbrication on the exterior edges.

Culture
Coast Salish: Squamish
Material
cedar wood, cedar root and cherry bark
Made in
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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