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Basket3074/3

Round basket with imbricated design. Basket is somewhat squat, with a wide belly narrowing to a slightly narrower lip. Construction is redbud ? root wrapped on a willow understructure. The basket is decorated with acorn dyed imbrication in diagonal lines of diamond shapes.

Culture
Maidu
Material
redbud root ?, willow root and acorn dye
Made in
California, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tray3074/2

Low, wide, dished tray for sifting acorn flour. Under-structure is made of willow, with tightly wrapped root. Imbrication is a dark brown colour in a lizard track design, spiraling from the rim in toward the centre or base on both interior and exterior of the tray.

Culture
Maidu
Material
redbud root ?, willow root and acorn dye
Made in
California, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3074/1

Tall, round basket has a willow root under-cage, with wrapped root. Base contains a central punt. Horizontal sections of root are dyed slightly darker to make a ringed pattern. Remnants of red dye can be seen in a few areas. From both top rim and 6cm from bottom hang fringes of small, conical, tin noisemakers attached to short lengths of hide.

Culture
Maidu
Material
redbud root ?, willow root, skin, tin metal and dye
Made in
California, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Pair of Moccasins10.229.4a-b

Upper portion of torn tag attached to left shoe, written in ink in Wurth’s hand: "#6/Moccasin"; two loose tags, written in ink in Wurth’s hand: bottom portion of torn tag: "made in/Laguna/Beadwork/from Paranje/Indian Woman"; #6/Moccasin/made from/Laguna Indian/Beadwork/from Paranje/Indian Woman"

Material
hide, dye and bead
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Bag3031/1

Large woven string bag (bilum). Bag is constructed of plant fibre string, loosely woven in order to allow the bag to be expandable. Its shape is wide at the shoulder, narrowing toward a rounded bottom. The mouth is wide, edged with a wrapped stich. The bag is coloured in stripes of a variety of pinks, purple, green and tan. The upper two corners of the bilum extend into long handles, unattached, that each culminate in a variety of cotton fabrics, plain, coloured and patterned, tied to the handle ends. Small bits of dyed pink feather down are intertwined in the thread at the centre front.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
plant fibre and dye
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Victory Textile3044/1

Large contemporary cloth commemorating Barack Obama’s election as 44th president of the United States of America. The cloth is printed with a repeating pattern that includes a photo of a waving Obama dressed in a suit, an American flag, black writing on white panels, and linear decorations and motifs.

Culture
West African
Material
cotton fibre, dye and ink
Made in
West Africa, Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Skirt3026/1

Skirt composed of strands of alternating beaten and unbeaten flax stalks forming a horizontal striped pattern where the unbeaten stalks are a light yellow colour, and the beaten segments are a dark brown colour. The stalks hang from a woven waistband made of dark brown braided fibre with long ties on each end, also braided.

Culture
Maori
Material
new zealand flax fibre, fibre and dye
Made in
New Zealand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Masquerade Costume Pants2956/203 c

Heavy wool pants that are part of a costume together with a coat (2956/203 b), a mask (2956/203 a), and six bells (2956/203 d-i). The pants are pink and dark blue patterned wool, embellished with rows of fringes in yellow, red and green. They open at the top front and close with two plastic buttons. The suspenders are sewn at the back and close in front with two plastic buttons.

Culture
Portuguese
Material
wool fibre, synthetic fibre, cotton fibre, plastic and dye
Made in
Podence, Braganca, Portugal
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tunic3028/1

Ceremonial bark cloth costume. The garment is a vest, slightly longer in front, completely open along the sides, with narrow shoulders and a deep v-neck at front. On the front a large toucan bird is attached at centre, wings spread to the sides, beak pointing downward. Linear designs have been lightly carved into the beak. To the bird’s sides two smaller beaks are sewn to the cloth, as are groupings of feathers dyed red, yellow and brown, several with seeds at their centre. Yellow and red feathers surround the v-neck. On the back of the garments is a smaller bird, black, with a serrated yellow and black beak and a strip of red and white feathers on the tail. Large, dyed feathers splay outward from the top of the body. Portions of bird beaks surround the creature. On front and back of vest, the bark cloth is heavily painted with zigzag, ‘x’ and other motifs in brown, yellow and red. Small, oval, black and red seeds line the edges and neck of the vest, as well as a decorative strip of feathers near the bottom where additional bark cloth has been sewn to the garment, front and back. Small dyed feathers hang from quills below this strip, while long feathers dangle from the bottom of the vest. These are dyed blue yellow and orange.

Culture
Interior Amazonia ?
Material
bark, toucan bird, toucan beak, feather, seed, paint, dye and fibre
Made in
Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ceremonial Headdress3028/2

Bark cloth and feather headband made of a wide strip of undecorated bark cloth, folded over. Short feathers on hide are sewn to and covering the exterior. Some areas of feather are dyed in green or red, alongside natural black and white feathers. Long feathers are sewn to the bark cloth, rising high above the headband, taller at centre, declining in height toward the sides. All are dyed blue on their fronts, with the backs of the tallest coloured gold, and shorter coloured red.

Culture
Interior Amazonia ?
Material
bark, skin, feather, fibre and dye
Made in
Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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