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BasketD3.15

Round, brown basket with a flat bottom and flared sides. Base is made from a circular birch bark panel with a white, green and pink leaf design of stitched porcupine quills in the centre and alternating white and pink quills around the rim. Two bands of coiled sweet grass with a single band of zigzagging open work between them comprise the sides; coiled sweet grass sides are all stitched with black thread.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands ?
Material
birch bark, sweet grass, porcupine quill, cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Manitoba, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MatD3.20

Flat, round mat with a central, circular birch bark panel. Birch bark panel was originally embroidered with a white, four-leafed quill work pattern, from which most quills are now gone. Encircling the central panel are alternating bands--three and two, respectively--of coiled and zigzagging open work sweet grass, all stitched with black thread.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands ?
Material
birch bark, porcupine quill, sweet grass, cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Manitoba, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mat1435/19

Circular twined mat with decorated bands around centre. From centre the bands are: purple star burst with green band inside it; indigo band with yellow spots; two thin bands with seven ducks equally spaced between them; and an indigo band with yellow spots.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
dye and grass
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mat1435/21

Oval twined mat. Decoration is in bands around centre and from centre to edge they are: red with thin yellow and then pointy brown bands; twined green and red bands; indigo band with orange bird designs; twined red and green bands; and pointy brown and thin yellow bands around edge.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
grass and dye
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mat1435/23

Oval twined mat. Decoration is in bands around centre and from centre to edge they are: red with thin yellow and then pointy brown bands; twined green and red bands; indigo band with orange bird designs; twined red and green bands; and pointy brown and thin yellow bands around edge.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
grass and dye
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dart QuiverB443 a-qq

Fur quiver containing two smaller skin quivers and 40 small darts. Three of the darts have conical balsa wood plugs at their pointed ends; one dart has a metal arrowhead at one end; rest of dart have two pointed ends, one that is less sharp then the other.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
metal, skin, bamboo grass and balsa wood
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket1719/41

Light brown rectangular woven basket with a flat, fitted lid; lid is hinged at the back with two leather ties and has a single leather strip at the front that wraps around a white plastic button affixed near the top of the basket's front side. Two longer strips of leather are tied near the top of the front and back sides of the basket, creating handles that bridge the basket's lid. Patterned designs in red-brown, black and yellow-white are featured on the lid and all four sides.

Culture
Interior Salish: Stl'atl'imx
Material
cedar wood, grass, skin, plastic, dye, cherry bark and cedar root
Made in
Mount Currie, British Columbia, Canada and Pemberton, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket1691/2

Rectangular basket with hinged, flat lid and two handles that cross the smaller dimension. Hinges are of skin as are the loops that hold the handles to the sides. Exterior walls are decorated with central designs of a black diamond inside a red one; bands of red and black dots are on lid along the shorter dimension.

Culture
Interior Salish ?
Material
cherry bark, root ?, grass ? and skin
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mat1435/16

A small circular brown woven mat with an orange circular centre that has dark brown lines radiating within it and outlined with green. There is a middle circular line of dark brown and brown. The inner rim is blue-green, the middle rim is orange, and the outer rim is green.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
grass and dye
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mat1435/14

A small circular brown woven mat with a green circle line outlined by blue at the centre. There are three equally spaced red and dark brown canoes with two people inside around the centre. The outside has three circular lines of alternating green, dark brown, and red parallelograms.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
grass and dye
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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