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HeadrestIe357

A wood horizontal element stained dark brown and carved on the ends and on the underside in the form of a double-headed reptile with bird-like heads lying on the back of the necks. Ridges on the underside are interrupted near one set of legs. Legs are of light brown wood cut and wrapped around the horizontal, then bound with fibre to form two a-shapes.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
stain, bamboo grass, fibre and wood
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceIe405

A wide flat bamboo strip, brown on the exterior while light brown on the cut side, is kept in a u-shape by a brown fibre string running from near one end to the other end. Curving inward from each tip, there is a white and brown boar's tusk bound to the wood with light brown fibre.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
pigment, fibre, boar tusk and bamboo grass
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNb11.251 a-b

Cylindrical basket (a) with flat, fitted lid (b); lid has a small, knob-like handle in the centre. Bottom twined; body and lid are wrapped twined; reinforced cedar hoop rim. Cedar warp with outer weft in grass (xerophyllum tenax). Bottom and inner fixed weft are sedge fibre. Designs on body of basket include thin bands of continuous rings of assorted colours and representations of people in canoes and ducks. The lid is decorated with ducks and rings of assorted colours. Exterior is faded; inside colours include; turquoise, brown, black, red, yellow and orange.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
cedar bark, bear grass, aniline dye and swamp grass
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNa708 a-b

Circular birch bark basket with straight, vertical sides and a flat-topped lid. Sweet grass edging on top and bottom edges of body and outer edges of lid are hand stitched with black thread. Basket's sides are encircled by a crisscrossing pattern of white quillwork. Lid features a large red quillwork maple leaf.

Culture
Ojibwa
Material
birch bark, sweet grass, fibre, porcupine quill and dye
Made in
Ontario, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNd594

Part (a) Urn shaped coiled cedar basket (bifurcated stitches) with flanged lid, part (b) with handles. Watch-spring base construction. Lid has single loop rim on outer edge and double raised handle at center. Four imbricated vertical bands with mirror image triangles and center line. Bands alternate between yellow cherry bark outline with dark cherry bark centers, and dark cherry bark outlines and cat-tail grass (?) centers. Tip of motif is continued on lid.

Culture
Interior Salish: Stl'atl'imx
Material
cedar root, cat-tail grass ?, cherry bark and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNd656

Coiled burden basket with bifurcated stitches on a bundle foundation. Basket is narrow at base, gradually widening to top opening. Alternating imbricated pattern of grass ? and cherry bark. Interior is stained. One side has a notch cut away from the top edge (central). There are three pieces of cotton cord tied through the basket at one end, and on either side near the same end.

Culture
Interior Salish: Nlaka'pamux
Material
cotton fibre, grass ?, cherry bark and cedar root
Made in
Lytton, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNa707 a-b

Circular birch bark basket with straight, vertical sides and a flat-topped lid. Sweet grass edging on top and bottom of body and outer edge of lid is stitched with black thread. Basket's sides are encircled with an overlapping pattern of white quillwork. Lid features a purple and white bird sitting on a branch in quillwork--red, green, white and purple quills are used.

Culture
Ojibwa
Material
birch bark, fibre, sweet grass, porcupine quill and dye
Made in
Ontario, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNbz711

Purse-like carrying basket with two wrapped loop handles. Has the shape of a round rectangle and is coiled with bifurcated stitches, also having slat bottom and sides. Cedar with imbricated design in grass and wild cherry bark in geometric motifs. Diamond shaped motif on the two ends with arrow shapes on the two sides.

Culture
Coast Salish
Material
cedar wood, grass, cherry bark and cedar root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketEf244 a-b

Oval, natural coloured coiled basket (part a) and lid (part b). Basket has high sides and lid has a three-tiered coiled lip that fits over the basket.

Culture
Indian
Material
grass
Made in
Puri, Odisha, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MatEf205

Small straw mat of coarse weave. Pattern of weave is sole decoration. Colour is natural. Warp cord is visible at one end where tied off.

Culture
Oriya
Material
grass and fibre
Made in
Puri, Odisha, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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