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Flat-based, rounded jar with tapering neck and flared lip (a) covered in a woven grass sleeve; round woven lid (b) with knob handle in the centre attached to jar with brown thread. Cedar bark and grass base in plain twining with central checker work. Design of six concentric bands of linear patterning with various colour combinations: orange, green, purple, and red.
Rectangular, tapered, basketry covered bottle with a tall, slender neck. The basketry is of very fine wrapped twined grass and cedar bark, with a plain twined base with central checker work. Design is six sets of concentric bands in purple, light yellow-brown and green. One wide band around top of neck is brown. Design has faded on neck and top of bottle. Stopper has crown-like metal top.
Circular basket lid with a red knob handle in the centre. Round wrapped twined lid with hollow faded red knob which is attached only by one unravelled strand. Design is of two bands of faded purple, yellow and purple on outside edge and around knob area. Two faded purple whales between bands. Solid red band around knob.
Napkin ring of wrapped twined grass. Two bands of purple around both ends and a purple geometric design around the middle.
Oval shaped birch bark container with tapered, almost square base; sides flare outwards. Rim reinforced with a bent twig lashed with spruce root. Stitched together at narrower sides with spruce root. Dark inner bark on the outside of the container has been scraped away in places to form a design of lighter colour. Design consists of two horizontal bands, each band consists of five scraped rows; two outer rows with triangular motif extending outwards, three inner rows straight and narrow. Note: bottom band on one side has only two inner rows. Rim has seven to eight wraps of green coloured spruce root at endpoints and two to three wraps of red coloured spruce root divided by two wraps of natural spruce root at midpoints.
Oval shaped birch bark basket at rim tapering to a square base. Decorative design covers entire exterior surface, except bottom. Design consists of a series of three horizontal repeated motifs of alternating dark brown waves and lines with light brown scraped waves and lines. The sewn side seams form an inverted "y" shape. Seams secured by spruce root stitches. Red and yellow fibre is woven through top of lashed rim--only traces remain.
Oval birch bark basket with square base. Body of basket is stitched together at the two ends with spruce root. Stitches seen on both interior and exterior. Decoration is scraped on side. Pattern consists of three stripes bordered by bands having triangles side by side pointing out. The pattern is repeated seven times around body of basket. Rim is of wood lashed to basket walls by spruce root. Four 7 cm sections of rim are decorated with red cedar bark (?) strands woven in plain checker. Between decorated sections, wood is covered with dark brown red cedar bark (?) lashed on with spruce root in "x" patterns; three sections have three "x"s each and the fourth section has four "x"s, two broken.
Oval, coiled, slat foundation carrying basket. Rim is single coiled and beaded with red cherry bark. Two coiled handles of cedar root foundation are attached to loops in the rim. Body of the basket is decorated with alternating red and black cherry bark with white grass (cat-tail) in eight vertical imbricated bands. Very finely woven.
Round wrapped twined mat with a faded purple edge and a central dark red pinwheel design in a clockwise direction. Between the central design and the edge, there are two bird figures with outspread wings, each clutching a narrow semi-circle thickened at each end. Birds are faded purple with faded orange design through the body. Semi-circles are faded red.
Short, cylindrical basket (a) with a flat shoulder and a flat, fitted circular lid (b). Cedar bark flange of looped cedar bark warp strands. Sides are grass faced wrapped twining. Base is plain with central checker work. Design consists of geometric motif on a wide purple band around the middle of the basket. Bands at top and bottom of basket: two purple, one yellow, one green, one yellow, one purple. Small purple twined stitches form two rows of double dots above and below last band of purple on top and bottom. Round wrapped twined lid with dark blue geometric design around purple centre. Bands around rim of lid: two red-orange, one yellow, one green, one yellow, and two orange.