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BasketNbz691

Rectangular, coiled basket with foot; slat foundation and split stitches. The basket is lined with yellow dotted Swiss cotton. Twelve diamonds are imbricated on the sides in black, red-brown, and light yellow-brown. Black beading around foot and red-brown around rim. Closely twisted loop work around rim. Attached loops include one double cotton cloth, two single cotton cloth and one covered in cedar.

Culture
Interior Salish: Stl'atl'imx
Material
cedar wood, cotton fibre, cherry bark, grass and cedar root
Made in
Mount Currie, British Columbia, Canada and Pemberton, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNd687 a-b

Part (a) is an oval, coiled basket (with bifurcated stitches) with slat construction and parallel coil bottom. Exterior walls are completely imbricated in geometric wave pattern in light yellow-brown grass, dark and red cherry bark. A metal buckle is fastened to hide sewn on one long side. Small piece of hide is sewn on opposite side. Part (b) is an oval lid with parallel coil and slat construction, and split stitches. Beaded in light yellow-brown grass and in light red-brown cherry bark. Two pieces of hide are sewn on lid, one on each side, the wide to the back and narrow to front.

Culture
Interior Salish: Stl'atl'imx
Material
cedar root, cedar wood, grass, cotton fibre, metal, skin, cherry bark 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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ArrowIe311

An arrow shaft, 94 cm. long, binding to a point, of pitpit (sword grass). The point is bound to the shaft with a 10 cm. wide band of trade cord coated with yellow clay. The point is triple made of three flat bamboo slivers bound to the outside of the shaft, each projecting 10.5 cm. beyond the shaft and 1 cm. wide, tapering to a sharp point, flaring out from the shaft.

Culture
Kewa
Material
clay, cotton fibre, bamboo grass and fibre
Made in
Iapi, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HatNb11.277

Dome-shaped basketry hat with small checker work plaited square at top, where warps are visible. This area is outlined with twining and then the warps are split into smaller pieces and double strand twining resumes, but as much finer work. There is a row of triple strand twining, after several rows, and then the warps are split again and two strand twining continues. The bottom rim is finished with a row of triple strand twining followed by four rows of double strand twining, and then another row of triple strand twining. There is a fitted hatband inside hat with a black shoelace sewn to it.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
cedar bark and cotton fibre
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HatNb11.276

Dome-shaped basketry hat with small checker work plaited square at top, where warps are visible. This area is outlined with twining and then the warps are split into smaller pieces and double strand twining resumes, but as much finer work. There is a row of triple strand twining, after several rows, and then the warps are split again and two strand twining continues. The bottom rim is finished with a row of triple strand twining followed by four rows of double strand twining, and then another row of triple strand twining. There is a fitted hatband inside hat with a cotton string sewn through it.

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