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BasketNb7.333

Round base with flaring walls and a round mouth. Walls decorated with four horizontal bands of dark brown stitches alternating with red-brown stitches. Two band rows alternating with two bands of three rows. Reinforced wrapped rim. Base started with a checker weave while the remainder of the base and just two rows of the side are in an s-twist.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
dye and cedar bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNb7.332

Cylindrical basket with an opening and a base that are circular. Braided rim folded inward and secured with a row of plain twining. Sides are decorated with three bands of dark brown plain twining alternating with brown plain twining.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
dye and cedar bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNb7.331

Small circular basket with a square bottom. Base in a checker weave pattern divided into two panels by white-brown stitching. Walls are decorated with six bands; from the top: five rows of white-brown, three rows of dark brown, three rows of orange, four rows white-brown, two rows of red, one row of orange, and last band is dark brown.

Culture
Gitxsan
Material
cedar bark, leaf, dye and grass
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNa1169

Oval birch bark basket that tapers to a square base. Basket is formed from one piece of birch bark and is stitched at both ends. Reinforced wood rim is lashed to body of basket with spruce root--small segments of spruce roots are dyed red. Sides are decorated with a scraped vegetal design of four plants, with crosshatching on one end and the base left undecorated.

Culture
Wet'suwet'en ?
Material
spruce root, wood, birch bark and dye
Made in
Burns Lake, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TextileEf429

Unfinished strip of orange textile, heavily embroidered with a row of alternating yellow and white half-circles, decorated with small mirrors. Flanked by two bands of continuous multi-coloured chains outlined in black. Narrow green and purple stripe on top of wide band of multi-coloured triangles, connected to multi-coloured diamonds, all outlined in yellow, decorated with white dots on colours and between. White-yellow backing. Top edge is selvage. Three other edges are unfinished, but fastened with basting.

Culture
Indian: Northern Indian and Indian: Central Indian
Material
glass, rayon fibre ?, cotton fibre, silver alloy metal and dye
Made in
Gujarat, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNb11.352 a-b

Round, wrapped twined basket (a) with lid (b). Base is plain twining with small cedar rectangle at centre, row of twining in alternating purple and light yellow-brown demarcates base from wall. Walls decorated with one purple row at base, faded purple geometric zigzag design in middle of basket, two rows of purple separated by row of light yellow-brown at top edge. Rim is faded purple wrapped twining. Lid is round with knob and has cedar bark inner rim. Row of purple wrapped twining between inner rim and undersurface of lid. Decoration consists of concentric circles from knob, one row purple, one light yellow-brown, one row purple, eight purple geometric designs; one row purple, one light yellow-brown on outer edge, knob decorated with light red and light green, two rows light red around base. Inner rim has cedar bark woven through narrow cedar strips, finished with braiding.

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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BasketNb11.332

Rectangular, handbag-like carrying basket with twisted cedar handles attached to the upper rim opposite each other. Base is cedar bark checker work overlaid with grass; two wide cedar bark bands; grass faced wrapped twining band in the middle with designs in light red, orange, purple and green of canoe, whale, birds and geometric floral motifs.

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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BasketryNb11.331 a-b

Rectangular, green glass bottle with bulbous bottom, squared middle, bulbous top and slender cylindrical neck; bottle is entirely covered with a woven basketry sleeve (a) and cap (b). Cedar bark and grass base in plain twining and central checker work. Geometric design around bulbous bottom and top; four dark blue birds between dark blue and purple bands and eight purple parallelograms on squared middle. Two purple birds between parallelograms on neck. Tightly fitting lid with purple sunburst design.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
swamp grass, cedar bark, glass and dye
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basketry CanoeNd574

Canoe shaped coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with single coil seat inside the canoe; has small prow with single coil loop extending from below prow to base of basket. The top rim is braided with grass. Imbricated pattern in three rows of three stitch intervals, alternating between red and black cherry bark.

Culture
Interior Salish: Nlaka'pamux
Material
grass ?, cherry bark, cedar root and dye
Made in
Merritt, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNd572

Round coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with two-coil foot as base. Imbricated geometric zig-zag design outlined in dark cherry bark, with bear grass next and red cherry bark in the middle. Crosses appear at each peak; lower peaks have dark cherry bark crosses with bear grass center, and upper peaks have red cherry bark center. Foot is beaded with red and black cherry bark.

Culture
Interior Salish: Nlaka'pamux
Material
bear grass, cherry bark, cedar root and dye
Made in
Merritt, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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