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BasketD1.352

Part (a) Cylindrical coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with slightly rounded shoulders and flanged lid, part (b). Watch-spring base and lid construction. Fully imbricated in cat-tail grass (?) with designs of two bands of tree-like forms alternating in red and black cherry bark on a solid line of black cherry bark. Near rim is row of cross shapes, alternating in red and black cherry bark on a black cherry bark line. Bottom has row of red cherry bark beading. Lid has one row of similar tree-like shapes in dark cherry bark on solid black cherry bark line. Center four rows are undecorated. Outer rim of lid has cat-tail grass (?) beading.

Culture
Interior Salish: Stl'atl'imx
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, cat-tail grass ? and dye
Made in
Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketD1.243 a-b

Coiled work basket with diamond design in dyed (brown) willow. Watch-spring base and lid construction with plaited beginning. The lid is flanged. Same diamond pattern circling lid.

Culture
Washoe ?
Material
willow wood and dye
Made in
USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fishing CreelD1.244

Flat-back coiled cedar root basket with lid; lid had a semicircular opening in the centre and is attached to the basket by two buckskin thongs. Simple coiled work with parallel splint base construction. Partial imbrication; thunderibrd pattern in black and white, red/black and white, red and black. Lid has wing patterns.

Culture
Interior Salish: Nlaka'pamux
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, cat-tail grass ?, deer skin ? and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketD3.9 a-b

Circular, flat bottomed woven basket (part a) with a flared top lip and a flat lid (part b)--lid has a central knob. Basket sides bulge towards the centre, creating a short, rounded shape. Ringing the centre of the basket and the lid is repeated diamond pattern woven with green, red, purple and yellow palm leaf. Basket and lid are sewn with diagonal lines of white thread.

Culture
Haudenosaunee
Material
grass, cotton fibre, palm leaf and dye
Made in
Ontario, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketD3.10

Elliptical, brown basket with a flat bottom and flared sides. Base is made from an oval-shaped birch bark panel with a white, green and red tulip-like design of porcupine quills in the centre. Two bands of coiled sweet grass with a single band of zigzagging open work between them comprise the sides; coiled sweet grass sides are all stitched with black thread.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands ?
Material
birch bark, sweet grass, porcupine quill, cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Manitoba, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SashE216

Sash with bands of multicoloured checkerboard pattern on a red ground. Finished with a twisted fringe at both ends.

Culture
Quiche
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Nebaj, Quiche, Guatemala ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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LoomE217 a-i

A loom (parts a-g) with an unfinished woven wool textile consisting of blue, green, yellow, orange, maroon, white, pink and red geometric designs of triangles, squares and rectangles. The textile is attached at the top to one large, cylindrical shaped wooden stick (part a). Intertwine in the multi-coloured warp is a cylindrical shaped heddle covered in red twine; a flat, rectangular batten with triangular, pointed ends (part g); one shed roll (parts d), one cylindrical shaped bar with indentations on the ends (part i) and five long cylindrical shaped sticks of various size (parts b,c,e,f,g).

Culture
Quiche
Material
cotton fibre, wood and dye
Made in
Nahuala, Solola, Guatemala
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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PonchoE225

Dark brown poncho with lower fringe and a rectangular shape with a v-neck. There is a double red line around the edges, four lines down the centre and one line along the bottom hem. The hem has a twisted fringe.

Culture
Mixtec
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Oaxaca, Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketD1.449

Flared round coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with watch-spring base construction and a foot of two coiled rows. Fully imbricated with four alternating rows of checkerboard pattern in red and dark cherry bark, and cat-tail grass (?) with dark and red cherry bark. Foot fully imbricated with dark cherry bark on top row and red lower row.

Culture
Interior Salish: Nlaka'pamux
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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BasketD1.450

Roughly rectangular basket with flaring sides and braided cording with a woven strap attached around the rim. Simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches); parallel splint base construction; line held on by rawhide; tump line woven with wool. Vertical striped design; each stripe is composed of stripes and checks in red/bullrush or black/bullrush. Design stops five rows before base. One filler of connected diamonds in red/bullrush. Tumpline has a blue zigzag line on green ground. Colour: tan.

Culture
Interior Salish: Nlaka'pamux
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, cat-tail grass ?, fibre, dye and rawhide skin
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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