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BasketD1.378

Rounded coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with narrow opening and attached lid. Watch-spring base and lid construction. Fully beaded, alternating in rows of red cherry bark, cat-tail grass (?), dark cherry bark, and cat-tail grass (?), then repeated. Lid is beaded alternating in dark and red cherry bark every two rows, very center all in red cherry bark. Bottom is fully beaded in red cherry bark except for very center. Fibre tied to lid and rim.

Culture
Interior Salish: Nlaka'pamux
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, cat-tail grass ?, dye and fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketD1.379

Rectangular coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with foot. Parallel splint base construction. Fully imbricated design of double stitches in alternating colours of dark and red cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?). First two rows on foot imbricated in alternating red and dark cherry bark, bottom row in solid red cherry bark. Fibre string through one corner.

Culture
Interior Salish
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, cat-tail grass ?, fibre and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketD1.380

Rectangular woven basket. Simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches); parallel slat base construction: fully imbricated. Sides: three vertical bands with geometric patterning in black and white. Ends have single "arrowhead" pattern. Colour: tan.

Culture
Interior Salish
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, cat-tail grass ? and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketD1.381

Rectangular coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with coiled handle and looped border. Parallel splint base construction. Handle is tied with string. Fully imbricated, background in cat-tail grass (?), diamond design in dark and red cherry bark with cat-tail grass (?) centers, each divided by vertical band of black and red. Upper and lower border of black cherry bark checkerboard squares, with bands of black cherry bark at long sides, with one band of red cherry bark, and cherry bark bands at sides.

Culture
Interior Salish
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, cat-tail grass ?, fibre and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketD1.383

Rectangular coiled basket (bifurcated stitches). Parallel splint base construction. Imbricated design of two bands, upper band outlined in dark cherry bark with inner checkerboard design in red cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?), the lower band outlined in red cherry bark with dark cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?) in diagonal pattern. Had handles on either long side at one time.

Culture
Interior Salish
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, cat-tail grass ? and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketD1.384

Basket with round front and flat back constructed in simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches) with a watch-spring base construction and a lid at the top. The basket is decorated with partial imbrication in two rows of staggered diamond shapes in red/off-white bulrush/red alternating with black/off-white bulrush/black. The lid has a continuation of the top row of diamond pattern and small triangles in black and red and is attached with rawhide hinges.

Culture
Interior Salish
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, cat-tail grass ?, rawhide skin and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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CombC1416

Twenty three teeth are woven tightly together with fibre at one end to join the handle in an hour-glass-like shape. Handle is decorated with geometric designs of yellow and dark fibres. The upper portion of the handle simply consists of the teeth extensions. The lower portion of the handle has a design that consists of a diamond pattern.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
fibre, grass and wood
Made in
Malaita, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Poi BallC1507 a-b

Two pairs of poi balls. The first pair (part a) is decorated with orange and red-purple vertical stripes on a natural light yellow-brown background with a tassel of like colours in between the attached string. The second pair (part b) is decorated with pink and green-blue vertical stripes on a natural light yellow-brown background with a tassel of like colours in between the attached string.

Culture
Maori
Material
new zealand flax fibre and raupo grass
Made in
New Zealand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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CombC1512

Five long teeth. Handle has two holes and is decorated with carved painted geometric designs in red and natural colour of a curvy zig zag.

Culture
Eastern Melanesian ?
Material
bamboo grass
Made in
Pacific Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Gable MaskC1514

Oval human face painted with designs in ochre and grey and white paint. Tusks in nose. Bamboo hanger at top. Evenly spaced holes at rim around cheeks and lower jaw. Hole at center of one tusk, on left side.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
paint, boar tusk, wood and bamboo grass
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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