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BagD1.231

Beaded floral design in red and green beads on blue bead background. Black velveteteen edge. Back is red wool fibre over muslin. Inside lining dark patterned cotton. Handles.

Culture
Interior Salish: Stl'atl'imx
Material
deer skin ?, cotton fibre ? and glass
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Burden BasketD1.375

Rectangular flared coiled basket (bifurcated stitches). Parallel slat base construction with oblique bifurcated reinforcement stitches. Upper half of basket fully imbricated in cat-tail grass (?), with geometric shape, outlined in dark cherry bark with red cherry bark interior outline, and two vertical lines in ends. Rim has intervals of dark cherry bark stitches. Beaded vertical parallel bands alternating in dark cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?).

Culture
Interior Salish: Stl'atl'imx
Material
cedar root, cat-tail grass ?, cherry bark, fibre and dye
Made in
Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketC401 a-e

Flap top box with four smaller baskets fitted inside; two woven handle straps attached at the rim; subtle linear pattern; edge finished in blanket stitch. Inside baskets are of similar style as large basket with no handles.

Culture
I-Kiribati
Material
palm leaf and fibre
Made in
Nonouti, Gilbert Group, Kiribati
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceC406

Dark and light brown discs strung, in alternating sections of four discs, onto fibre strand.

Culture
I-Kiribati
Material
coconut husk fibre, shell and coral
Made in
Nonouti, Gilbert Group, Kiribati
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MoneyC407

Strand of discs strung on fibre cord, alternating dark brown and white.

Culture
I-Kiribati
Material
coral, coconut nutshell and fibre
Made in
Nonouti, Gilbert Group, Kiribati
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MoneyC408

Discs are strung on a fibre cord alternating dark brown and white with a knot mid-strand. Coconut and coral smoothed and drilled for stringing.

Culture
I-Kiribati
Material
coconut nutshell, hemp fibre and coral
Made in
Nonouti, Gilbert Group, Kiribati
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SwordC410

Circular, red-brown shaft and handle that tapers to a flat point. Flat ribbed 'blade' with eighteen pairs of shark teeth along both edges. There is a cross-guard piece near the end of the handle which curves toward the 'blade' and has three shark teeth along the concave edge at either side.

Culture
I-Kiribati
Material
shark tooth, plant fibre and wood
Made in
Nukunau, Gilbert Group, Kiribati
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SwordC411

Tapered, cylindrical, brown wood shaft that has four rows of teeth with opposing sides of equal length. Shark teeth are secured by twisted fibre string. The longer sides have forty-eight teeth while the shorter sides have nineteen teeth. Bands of double black hair interwoven with woven palm leaf decorate both ends of the toothed portion. Two bands of black hair are around near the wider end and the middle within these interwoven bands at both ends.

Culture
I-Kiribati
Material
shark tooth, hair, fibre, wood and palm leaf
Made in
Nukunau, Gilbert Group, Kiribati
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SwordC412

Short, rounded cylindrical, red-brown handle. Flat ridged 'blade' with twenty-four pairs of shark teeth along both edges. Sharks teeth attached with fibre.

Culture
I-Kiribati
Material
shark tooth, fibre and wood
Made in
Nukunau, Gilbert Group, Kiribati
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowC1395

The shaft is plain. The base of the shaft, near the pointed end, is wrapped with cane fibre. The point is plain dark wood that has an inflected long hardwood point with minute barbs.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
plant fibre, wood and reed grass
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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