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Dress3343/9

Kaftan style dress with tie-dye circle designs. Dark green circle overtop gold background in the centre of the dress, on both the front and back, and a dark green circle around the entire neckline. Other streaks of dark green and lighter gold throughout. Yellow embroidery around neckline, sleeves and along bottom edge. Embroidery along sleeves and bottom edge in shape of wavy line. Small embroidered circles span the entire neckline, with loops on top of them. On the front of the dress, extending down from the collar, are eight large embroidered circles outlined with loops and curls. The large circles form an inverted triangle. The interior of the dress has white cotton around the collar, with the same embroidery on it as the exterior. Attached to the lining are two cotton circles- one white, one dark green. The circles also have embroidery on them. All edges of dress are hemmed.

Culture
West African
Material
dye and cotton fibre
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile3343/4

Rectangular tie-dye cloth with brown and yellow designs. Cloth has dark brown background with two large, dark yellow diamond outlines on left and right sides. Both outlines span from the top to bottom edges. Inside each outline is a smaller light yellow diamond. Light brown and light yellow crumple patterns surrounding diamond outlines. Left and right sides are unhemmed.

Culture
West African
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile3343/3

Satin-like, tie-dye cloth with navy blue, sky blue and pink designs. Left and right sides of cloth are bordered with wide black bands, with streaks of navy blue in them. Middle portion of cloth has dark blue background with sky blue and pink crumple patterns overtop. Back of cloth is light blue with navy blue and faint pink crumple patterns throughout. All edges on back of cloth are navy blue. Left and right sides are unhemmed.

Culture
West African
Material
fibre and dye
Made in
Sierra Leone
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3369/3

Rectangular woven handbag-like basket with plaited handles. Handles attach to the wrapped cylindrical rim, opposite each other. The design features a large black-brown whale on each long side, and a small green two-person boat on the short side. Two bands of cedar bark wrap around the basket above and below the designs. Plain woven cedar bark is visible at the base.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
cedar root, dye, cedar bark ? and wood ?
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile3256/4

Rectangular cloth is constructed in a tight weave, with thin alternating stripes of light and dark brown. Each dark brown stripe holds a series of stitched, evenly spaced yellow motifs, while the light brown stripes carry similar red motifs. A thin stripe of red cloth has been sewn to base. Textile edges unfinished.

Culture
Chancay
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Chancay, Lima, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile3256/3

Large, nearly square cloth constructed in a small weave, in several shades of brown. Patterning is dense, made of small ovals. A large grid covers the surface, within which are similar patterns containing a circle inside a square, surrounded by loose ovals. Edges of the cloth have been hemmed for display.

Culture
Chancay
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Chancay, Lima, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket2017-147/3

The spruce root is natural. The dye is brown.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
spruce root, dye and grass
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Veil3097/23

Dyed gauze and lace cloth with plain weave technique in borders. Rectangular shape with three types of diagonal bands: waves, feline faces opposing to each other and lines. Short border has geometric fish; long borders have bird motif in brown on cream ground, and cream on brown.

Culture
Chancay
Material
camelid wool fibre, dye and cotton fibre
Made in
Lima, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket LidA6708

Coiled cedar root basket and lid with cedar slat foundation. Imbricated designs in black dyed cherry bark and cat-tail. Parallel slat construction. Lid has slat edge with overcast splint construction. Cherry bark beading decorates edge of lid. (The lid is currently on top of basket A8454, but does not appear to be original to that basket?)

Culture
Interior Salish
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, dye, grass and fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeadbandD1.29

Woven and braided horshair in bands of black and beige chevron, plain white band, orange and black double band of chevrons, a plain white band, and black and white cheron. Tassels are white blue and black. Heads of tassels and ends of headband are woven in plain horsehair.

Culture
Ktunaxa
Material
horse hair and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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