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BasketA5031 a-b

Part (a) Rectangular coiled basket with slat base and lid construction and bifurcated stitches on body, with lid, part (b). Fully imbricated in cat-tail grass (?) with designs of staggered horizontal bars of colour (red and black) eight stitches long. Lid is partially beaded with cat-tail grass (?), cherry and crabapple bark around rim, and three sections of horizontal bands of red and black beading. String tied at one long side.

Culture
Interior Salish ?
Material
cat-tail grass ?, dye, cherry bark, crabapple bark, cedar root and fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowC783

A plain cane shaft. Base and end of the shaft are wrapped with thin cane strips. The point is plain wood decorated with an 11 cm. sleeve of brown and yellow grass. The 20 cm. tip of the point has six irregular barbs and the very tip is wrapped cane strips.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
bone, stem ?, grass, wood and fibre
Made in
Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowC785

A plain cane shaft wrapped at the base and near the notched end with cane fibre. The long point is wrapped with cane fibre around the tip and is multi-barbed with tiny barbs on all faces which are covered with red ochre and have a rectangular hole near the base of the point.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
wood, grass, fibre and ochre pigment ?
Made in
Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowC789

A shaft carved with dark vertically linear designs of v-shapes on a natural background above four of the cane joints. The long point is plain dark wood.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
wood and grass
Made in
Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowC794

A shaft carved with dark vertically linear designs of v-shapes on a natural background above six of the cane joints. The long point is plain dark wood.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
wood and grass
Made in
Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearC502

Hollow, cylindrical, bamboo shaft with designs filled in with black pigment and some areas painted red. Has a long, narrow, lance-olate leaf-shaped blunt hardwood point that is flat along one side while rounded at angles along a ridge at the other side. Some stem ? is coiled around the upper portion of the shaft. The lower portion of the shaft has a design that consists of a horizontal band with a zig zag leaf pattern and vertical lines of triangles in between curvi-linear lines.

Culture
Eastern Melanesian
Material
wood, bamboo grass, stem ?, pigment ? and paint
Made in
Pacific Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowC861

A plain shaft, without notches, has coiled fibre at the end and at the base near the pointed end. The long dark wood point has five notches and a squared, tapering tip.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
grass and wood
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA3757

Twine work weave with bands of black spruce woven in and false embroidery (overlaid twined weaving) in natural grass. Two bands of a white step pattern on a black background on basket and two on lid. Fitted lid double tiered at top.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
spruce root, grass and dye
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA3763

Woven basket with overcast rim and twisted twining for reinforcements on base. Embroidered design: two killer whales in black, yellow, white, green and red with two square faces in yellow with open mouths showing teeth. Two red lines, one above, one below, with two step pattern in black, yellow and green.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
spruce root, aniline dye and swamp grass
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA4056

Rounded woven basket of a dark brown colour. Tee-lattice work. Design consists of a wide band around the rim in a natural light colour with a dark brown design ("grizzly bear hand"?).

Culture
Hupa
Material
grass and willow wood
Made in
California, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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