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Burden basket. Rectangular with three separated rows of animal designs covering all four sides. The figures are reddish-brown bark, with a lighter (yellowish) grass as background. The upper outside edge is reinforced with a rectangular loop of thick metal (telegraph) wire, held on with hide and fibre loops. The inside base is reinforced with a rectangular loop of root, bent at three corners.
Small woven basket. Basket flares widely from a small round base toward lip. Construction is grass fibre woven around sedge root into a tube, thin at bottom centre, thickening as it winds up to rim. Red-brown dyed grass is used to create an irregular pattern of lines and triangles extending from base to top in shades of brown and red brown. This is visible on both interior and exterior of basket.
Woven basket. Basket flares widely from a small round base toward lip. Construction is grass fibre woven around sedge root into a tube, narrow at bottom centre, thickening as it winds up to rim. Brown dyed grass is used to create open diamond shaped patterns extending from rim to base, with a smaller, closed diamond in a light brown inside. This is visible on both interior and exterior of basket.
Woven basket. Basket flares widely from a small round base toward lip. Construction is grass fibre woven around sedge root into a tube, narrow at bottom centre, thickening as it winds up to rim. Red-brown dyed grass is used to create a seven-petal flower at bottom centre, with corresponding colour blocks extending down from rim. This is visible on both interior and exterior of basket.
Woven basket. Basket flares widely from a small round base toward lip. Construction is grass fibre woven around sedge root into a tube, narrow at bottom centre, thickening as it winds up to rim. Brown dyed grass is used to create a diagonal checkered pattern across the inside and exterior of the basket. Rim is fully brown.
Woven basket for winnowing grain. Basket is low and shallow, flaring widely from a small base toward lip. Construction is grass fibre woven around sedge root into thick tubes, winding up from bottom centre to rim. Brown dyed grass is used to create a pattern of triangles across the inside and exterior of the basket. Offset concentric circles of brown decorate the base.
Bamboo flute. A thick, hollow cylinder of bamboo is sealed at one end by a natural node, with a large hole bored through the stalk beneath it. The opposite end is open. The entire cylinder of bamboo has been scratched with small, fine zigzagging lines in a variety of patterns, from squares, to triangles, to long sets of opposing diagonals. The designs are coloured a light brown. Interior is undecorated.
A flat comb with 15 prongs, made from light brown sticks that are thinned at the top end, and tightly held together by a cross-bar weave. The comb is triangular in shape. The upper end is covered with a black substance and inlaid with mother-of-pearl triangles, the lower part constitutes the prongs. The comb is attached to a long thin handle, which has a small piece of twine attached to it.
Woven basket with designs. Basket is rectangular, long and thin, flaring slightly from bottom to rim, where remnants of flexible twisted cedar handles can be seen on one side, with a handle attached to the other side. The basket has a wide box weave in cedar bark on the base, and tightly wrapped grass on the body. Decoration consists of two encircling rows of red swastika designs along the top and bottom. One side has a scene of birds landing on a branch with foliage and red flowers. The opposite side shows a triangular pennant flag in purple with CANADA in orange. Purple flowers with green foliage sit at opposite corners of the image. (Note: basket has undergone repairs since the photo was taken.)
Cat-tail reed mat. Mat is made of a double layer of reeds laying parallel to each other, joined in a braid of reed and wool string at the top. Long twisted cords join the reeds together across the width of the mat, spaced at regular intervals. A thick woven plait falls down one side. Ends are contained by a wool string entwined around each strand near bottom.