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BasketNd607

Small, coiled, flaring rectangular basket with loop border and coiled handle. Handle is looped onto small coiled loop on basket with string foundation. Slat base and slat foundation body. Basket has a foot. Imbricated geometric square design in dark cherry bark and light brown grass. Red and dark cherry bark beading decorate foot.

Culture
Interior Salish
Material
cotton fibre, grass, cherry bark and cedar root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HangingEf416

Long narrow hanging with centre beaded panel. The panel has stylized human, god and animal forms in dark blue, red, yellow and green on a white background. The left quarter has horses and human figures carrying lights, surrounded on four sides by a row of small elephants and a narrow dark border on three sides. The remaining three quarters are constructed separately and sewn to first section. From left to right are animal, bird and geometric figures; five squares with a multi-armed human figure, an elephant headed human figure, animals and a geometric design, followed by a dark skinned male figure and two females; remaining portion has numerous, different animals and two stylized trees. The whole section is bordered with yellow and white diamonds on a dark blue background. The five squares are separated by a similar vertical diamond border; narrow blue and white border at top, bottom and right end. The beadwork is stitched to textile with long running stitches. The panel is framed with machine stitched silk border of red and yellow chevron patchwork. Backing is of coarse red cotton with eighteen machine stitched hanging loops on top and twenty-one loops on the bottom.

Culture
Indian: Northern Indian and Indian: Central Indian
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre and glass
Made in
Gujarat, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ClothAf512

Rectangular cloth with dark indigo blue ground and light blue patterns divided into smaller rectangles by strips of thin parallel lines, repeated three wide by six long. Patterns alternate between birds with prickley greens, and other representational shapes. Two ends have a wide hem, one side has a narrow hem.

Culture
West African
Material
dye and cotton fibre
Made in
Nigeria ? or Sierra Leone ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ClothAf511

Cloth composed of 22 strips of dyed fabric sewn together. The cloth has a mottled blue and white pattern, with solid indigo borders on each end. There is also a short (.7 cm) fringe on each end.

Culture
Nigerian ?
Material
indigo dye and cotton fibre
Made in
Nigeria ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cover949/19

Natural coloured cover with woven patterns. The square cover has several rows of patterns with some floral and animal motifs in red and black. There are knotted tassels along the bottom.

Culture
Dai
Material
cotton fibre, wool fibre ? and dye
Made in
Yunnan, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Apron949/10

Dark blue apron with embroidery and tassels. The apron is rectangular with sloped upper corners and two long ties. On the front is an abstract geometric pattern, cross-stitched predominantly in pink, red and white on dark blue. Along the bottom hem are multicoloured tassels with metal ornamentation. The back is unlined.

Culture
Yi
Material
cotton fibre, glass, dye, synthetic fibre ? and metal
Made in
Yunnan, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNd680 a-b

Part (a) Rectangular coiled basket, with bifurcated stitches at sides and coiled slat construction on bottom. Fully imbricated, gometric design of alternating rows of dark or red cherry bark 'x', on background of light yellow-brown grass. Bottom of basket has cherry bark beading around edge. Blue thread is fastened to one side. Part (b) Lid of slat foundation and fits inside basket. Cherry bark beading on lid, with black beading on rim.

Culture
Interior Salish: Stl'atl'imx
Material
cotton fibre, grass, cherry bark, cedar root and dye
Made in
Mount Currie, British Columbia, Canada and Pemberton, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HangingEf415

Beadwork square with patchwork silk border. Beadwork background of opaque white beads, patterned with yellow, green, red and blue beads; 2 horizontal and 2 vertical lines form 9 equal squares. The centre square is patterned with 4 geometric tree forms and a small, long tailed animal. The remaining squares are patterned with animal forms, either horses, lions or elephants; the 5 upper squares each have 6 similar animals, the lower 2 squares have 4 similar animals and the left lower square has 6 dissimilar ones. Beadwork is bordered with a row of diamonds and a linear margin, framed by 3 borders of silk patchwork, 2 green with red diamonds, separated by one of orange and red chevrons. Chevron border and textile edge is bound in purple. There are hanging loops in each corner. The backside is lined with red cotton.

Culture
Indian: Northern Indian and Indian: Central Indian
Material
cotton fibre, glass and silk fibre
Made in
Gujarat, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearIh205

Dark brown wood spear, round in cross-section, with the shaft tapered to the butt. Large elongated pyramidal point is square in cross-section with the wood perforated near the joint with three holes in the shape of flattened ellipses 4 cm. long. Point is joined to the shaft with an end-lap joint, heavily bound, encrusted with dirt, and broken in several places. Several bands of plant fibre are 33.5-55 cm. from the point end. Broken 75 cm. from the butt end and bound with cotton cord.

Culture
Fijian
Material
wood, cotton fibre and plant fibre
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HangingEf414

Small beadwork square with silk border; background of opaque white beads patterned in yellow, blue and red with a central stylized geometric form, and with a bird and 2 different animals on each side; wide border of green and black beads patterned with small geometric forms in yellow, white and red; edged with a narrow band of white, blue and red beads. The beadwork is bordered by 4 light red, silk rectangles which are stitched together. There is a woven pattern of fine red and green stripes and with a gold-coloured metallic floating weft (?). Red cotton (?) backing and red silk binding. Hanging loop on each corner; considerable fading and disintegration of woven border and binding; many metallic elements missing; one small hole in lower silk border; lower right hanging loop is dissimilar to the other three.

Culture
Indian: Northern Indian and Indian: Central Indian
Material
glass, metal, silk fibre and cotton fibre
Made in
Gujarat, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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