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Basket1924.685

Small platter basket with loop for suspension. Decorated with blue-purple black and dark orange false embroidery rings radiating from centre.; Good

Culture
Tlingit
Material
root, spruce wood and grass
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MAA: University of Cambridge
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Basket1924.684

Platter of basketry with elaborate false embroidery decoration in bands with red, yellow, greenish and black designs.; Good

Culture
Tlingit
Material
root, spruce wood and grass
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MAA: University of Cambridge
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Basket1978.3

Small oval basket with lid that has a dotted design in grass around the lid and sides. The background is cream with blue-green bands and purple dots. The base shows the cedar bark and a rim of cedar bark strengthens the lip of the basket.; Good

Culture
Makah ? or Nuu-chah-nulth ?
Material
bark, cedar wood and grass
Made in
Washington, USA and British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MAA: University of Cambridge
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BasketE 1907.565

Basket, small and round with flat cover and base of very finely plaited bark strands bearing a design of fylfots (?swastikas) in blue.; Good

Culture
Makah
Material
bark and grass
Made in
Washington, USA
Holding Institution
MAA: University of Cambridge
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Basket1924.673

Finely woven circular basket with lid. The weave uses cedar bark and grass, in the technique known as wrapped twining. The decoration consists of circular bands in dark brown, red, yellow and cream. The rim of the basket is strengthened with a band of cedar bark, the base is more coarsely woven than the sides of the basket.; Good

Culture
Makah
Material
bark, cedar wood and grass
Made in
Washington, USA
Holding Institution
MAA: University of Cambridge
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Basket1932.238

Tlingit basket in poor state of preservation but an old specimen with native dyes , as the catalogue card states. The basket is finely woven from spruce root with a false embroidery design made from grass and possibly maidenhair fern. The design has two bands of red and dark greenish black pattern which is a variation on the butterfly pattern identified by Emmons (1903:263-277). The central band is composed of stepped cream and reddish brown lines. The basket has been stitched together.; Good

Culture
Tlingit
Material
root, spruce wood and grass
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MAA: University of Cambridge
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BasketE 1898.40 E

Five tightly woven burden baskets, of different sizes, with undulating rims woven with holes, and decorated with dark brown, red, yellow and cream imbricated designs. A) Medium sized with three V-shaped lined designs that have pale central section. B) Medium sized basket with three V- shaped designs descending from rim, with light central section, edged by reddish brown line, yellow line and bordered with dark brown stepped edge.C) Small sized basket with single and double diamond pattern descending from rim. Diamonds are alternately red and black with checkered appearance, the background is cream. D) Medium sized basket with banded V-shaped designs in yellow and dark brown, interspaced by elliptical designs edged with dark brown, yellow inside with a red centre. E) Large burden basket with joined V-shaped stripped design edged with red and dark brown stepped design. In the centre of the downward pointing V' s are small stripped yellow and black triangles. In the centre of the upward pointing V' s are dark brown, yellow and red diamonds. The overall background imbrication is cream, while the stripes are yellow. There are no leather thongs present on any of the baskets, which would have been used for carrying .; Good

Culture
Klickitat
Material
root, cedar wood, bark, cherry and grass
Made in
Washington, USA
Holding Institution
MAA: University of Cambridge
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Dance Apron2747/1

"Tofua" dance apron . Basketry top panel is of light grass, with a zigzag pattern woven into it, around which is inter-woven an acrylic blue wool border and a twisted green and yellow wool band. The hanging grass strands below the panel have been unraveled in spots and shredded into long thin fibres in others.

Culture
Rotuman
Material
grass, acrylic fibre and synthetic dye
Made in
Rotuma, Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bag2729/13

Square-shaped woven bag (bilum) with long macrame strap of twisted grass rope. Thick strips of dyed red and purple leaf ? alternate with brown to create a diamond pattern. Into the front side are woven bunches of brightly coloured yellow, purple, green and pink grass fibres, the one at top centre being a pompom.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
grass, leaf ?, dye, synthetic dye and plant fibre
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headdress2736/6

Headdress consisting of flat, horn-shaped curved wood head piece with long strands of dried grass hanging down in two thick bunches from grass pompoms. The plank wood headpiece, with leather and cloth head straps attached, is painted white with red dots on both sides and, on the front, has two leaping sharks facing each other and the dates 2000 and 2005.

Culture
Bijogo
Material
wood, paint, leather skin, cotton fibre and grass
Made in
Bissagos Islands, Guinea-Bissau
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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