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BasketA2.702

Brown birch bark basket with an oval-shaped top and a rectangular bottom. Bark is bent and laced into place with birch twine around the rim overcast with thin strips of root. Geometric and linear patterns are scratched onto the exterior sides, revealing a lighter shade of bark.

Culture
Dakelhne: Nat'ooten: Babine
Material
birch bark, cedar root and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2433 a-b

Small urn shaped coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with foot and lid (part b). Watch-spring base and lid construction. Imbricated design of large checkerboard diamond shapes in red bark and grass and black bark and grass. Lid has three small checkerboard triangles around rim in same colour configuration, with another row above of checkerboard triangles. Foot is beaded with grass in two rows.

Culture
Coast Salish ?
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, cat-tail grass ? and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA3014

Short rounded coil basket (bifurcated stitches). Fully imbricated with background of grass, design of continuous horizontal geometric diamond pattern, outlined in red cherry bark, then dark cherry bark. Watch-spring base construction, rim has extra cross stitches on the interior.

Culture
Interior Salish ?
Material
cedar root, cat-tail grass ?, cherry bark and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA3173

Basket with curved sides and two horizontal bands of concentric rectangles in red/yellow and yellow/red (alternating) on horizontal bands of black/red/black/red/black. Base - mixed twined work (plain twined alternating with wicker weave). Sides are plain twined. False and true embroidery.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
spruce root, grass and aniline dye
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA3176

Narrow, rectangular woven handbag-like basket with twined cord handles attached along the upper rim opposite each other. Dyed designs of two bands of alternating natural and purple oblique blocks with green horizontal lines on alternate natural blocks; blue lines top and bottom. Plaited base and wrapped twined weaving on sides.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
cedar bark, swamp grass and dye
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA3179

Cylindrical woven basket with three horizontal brown bands--each five rows wide--around the sides. Twined with braided border.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
spruce root and dye
Made in
Metlakatla, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA3181 a-b

Twined circular basket (a) with a flat bottom and a fitted lid (b). The base is a mixed twined weave (plain twined alternating with wicker weave), sides and lid have a pattern in green (three bands). Circular hole in centre of lid.

Culture
Nisga'a
Material
spruce root and aniline dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA3183

3 bands of zigzags on a black ground bordered by red. Plain twined sides with embroidered grass design alternating with crossed warp twined sections. Colour: natural.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
dye, grass and spruce root
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA3184

Woven basket with slightly flared, circular sides. Plain twined work with braided border. Four horizontal green bands.

Culture
Haida
Material
spruce root and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Burden BasketA3408

Large flared, rectangular coiled cedar root basket (bifurcated stitches). Most of basket is imbricated in cat-tail grass (?) background with vertical geometric scroll design in two parallel bands of red, and dark cherry bark. At rim are intervals of dark cherry bark stitches. On each long side is a black cherry bark cross between the vertical pattern. On lower portion of basket are "cluster of flies" checkerboard bands of red cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?), and dark cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?).

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