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Ear OrnamentB143

Bamboo is engraved with scale pattern at both ends. Hollow bamboo section is filled with grass.

Culture
Sakai
Material
grass and bamboo grass
Made in
Malaysia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ear OrnamentB142

Bamboo is engraved at each end with a wide band of connected diamonds with horizontal lines. Hollow bamboo section filled with the grass and bark.

Culture
Sakai
Material
bamboo grass, grass and bark
Made in
Malaysia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BlowgunB135

Blowgun with plain shaft that is covered at the open end with red cane that has been wrapped around the shaft and is interrupted by two bands of woven grass? as well as a strand of dark brown braided hair that has been wrapped and tied around the shaft. Two other thick bands of woven grass ? have come loose from the shaft. The mouthpiece is hemispherical.

Culture
Malay
Material
wood, hair, stem ? and grass ?
Made in
Malacca, Maluku, Malaysia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA8521 a-b

Spruce root basket with lid and handle: plain twined weave (two strand) with darker strands woven in and false embroidery over the darker bands. "Arrow-like" design in swamp grass (going opposite directions on lid and sides). Design is woven over band of darker spruce.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
swamp grass, dye and spruce root
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketryA8510

Cylindrical glass vase covered with a swamp grass sleeve. Base: plain twined weaving with center in checker work. Sides: wrapped twined weaving with crossed warp plaited openwork weaving. Several compound bands between openwork sections.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
swamp grass, cedar bark, aniline dye and glass
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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QuiverB501

Cylindrical quiver of a tea-colour stain with bark banding around the top and the base. Woven handles are bound around the upper portion and through the lower portion with banding covering.

Culture
Bidayuh
Material
bamboo grass, fibre and tail
Made in
Kalimantan, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Stringed Musical InstrumentB499

A thin brown piece that has a long tongue attached at one end. The piece is slightly rounded with one rounded end and one pointed end. There is a toggle at one end and a loop at the other with another rod.

Culture
Western Indonesian
Material
bamboo grass and fibre
Made in
Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA8482

Open coiled work basket (with bifurcated stitches) with foot. Coiled open decorative rim and foot. Watch-spring base construction. Partial imbrication in alternating digonal rows of checkerboard pattern of cat-tail grass (?) and red or dark cherry bark.

Culture
Interior Salish ?
Material
cedar root, cat-tail grass ?, dye and cherry bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA8481

Open work coiled basket (with bifurcated stitches) with open work foot. Watch-spring base construction. Imbricated design of 4 staggered rows of cross figures in black cherry bark and grass, and red cherry bark and grass. Also, small figures in red cherry bark and grass along foot.

Culture
Interior Salish ?
Material
cherry bark, dye, cat-tail grass ? and cedar root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA8480

Cylindrical flared open coiled basket (with bifurcated stitches) with foot. Watch-spring base construction. Fully imbricated with grass and design of 'v' shapes in three rows of dark cherry bark; the bottom row has red cherry bark 'v' shape in center, upper row has same in dark cherry bark, top row is smaller 'v' shape. Foot composed of 3 coiled rows and beaded in dark cherry bark.

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