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MoccasinsD3.194 a-b

Gather-toe type moccasin with high top. Laced in front with braided purple, orange and green laces. Embroidered with floral design in green, purple, red, and yellow on the vamp and near the tops of both sides. Top edged with fur. Triangular, zigzagging embroidery in blue and red around the heels.

Culture
Anishinaabe ?
Material
deer skin, cotton fibre, glass and beaver skin
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceD3.195

Long beaded necklace with spherical amber-coloured glass beads, small white shells, and oblong black glass beads with white bands around the centres. White shells are strung in groups of three with amber glass separating the groups; six larger oblong black beads are spaced at farther intervals around the necklace.

Culture
Ojibwa
Material
glass, shell and fibre
Made in
Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Neck OrnamentD3.196

Beads and shells are strung in net-like fashion on cotton thread and attached to top of leather thongs which also form a fringe. Colours: white, green, yellow, blue, black, brown.

Culture
Ojibwa
Material
leather skin, glass and shell
Made in
Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketD3.203

Birch bark basket with a circular top and a square bottom. Birch bark is bent and laced together with root lashings. A split twig rim covers the top edge of the basket and is overcast with thin strips of root; a strip of bark is laced underneath the rim as reinforcement. Red and green beads are featured around the top of the rim. A strip of rawhide is strung from one side of the rim to the other as a handle.

Culture
Mi'kmaq ?
Material
birch bark, cedar root, glass and rawhide skin
Made in
Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketD3.204

Light brown birch bark basket with an oval-shaped top and a square bottom. Bark is bent and laced into place, with birch twine around the rim overcast with thin strips of root; pairs of decorative red beads are tied to the rim at four points. A handle made from a strip of rawhide is strung from one side of the rim to the other.

Culture
Mi'kmaq ?
Material
birch bark, cedar root, glass and rawhide skin
Made in
Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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OrnamentC266

Sections of blue beads with half-shells attached as bangles. All attached to a braided band.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
nutshell, glass and fibre
Made in
New Georgia, Western, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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PinH1.68

Metal pin with a large jointed-bodied fish with engraved diamond shaped scales, attached by a thin metal chain linked to a floral pin detailed with a curved edge, triangular cut outs, incised leaves surrounding an inlaid blue piece of glass.

Culture
Peruvian ?
Material
silver metal and glass
Made in
Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceA1450

Russian-type faceted round blue trade beads on closed string. Several are mottled with black. One light blue bead.

Culture
Nuxalk
Material
glass and fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceA1451

Spherical beads in blue, green, and white strung in pairs in between dentalium shells. Strung in a circular necklace.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
dentalium shell, glass and fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceA1452

Necklace of paired dentalium shells alternating with white, green, dark blue and light blue trade beads; strung on a light cord. Abalone shell pendant.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
dentalium shell, abalone shell, glass and fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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