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Basket2911/18 a-b

Rectangular cedar basket with lid. Basket bottom is pedestal style with four triangular legs. The shape of the pedestal influences the interior of the basket, with small ledges in each of the short ends, and the centre of the interior base lays at the centre bottom of the pedestal. Horizontal lines of imbrication in alternating dark red, light brown and black encircle the basket and base. The lid is flat with a rim that sits inside the basket and is also decorated with lines of imbrication in black, dark red and light brown.

Culture
Coast Salish: Squamish
Material
cedar wood, cedar root, cherry bark and grass
Made in
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket2911/7

Rectangular cedar basket with two handles. The basket is straight sided but flares slightly toward the top. Two long rounded handles are attached to the top edge of the long sides. The exterior walls are decorated with short imbricated bar patterns of light brown, dark brown and dark red.

Culture
Coast Salish: Squamish
Material
cedar wood, cedar root, cherry bark and grass
Made in
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket2911/4 a-b

Round, coiled basket with lid. The basket flares slightly up toward the rim. The sides are decorated with a continuous zigzag stripe of imbrication in dark red, light brown and black. The base has a few strips of dark red imbrication. The lid is round with a raised knob and has a four lobed flower pattern in black, light brown and dark red imbrication.

Culture
Coast Salish: Squamish
Material
cedar wood, cedar root, canary grass and cherry bark
Made in
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket2911/16

Rectangular-oval basket with two handles attached along the long edges. Basket is made of cedar wood slats wrapped with cedar root. The basket flares slightly toward the top edge, and is decorated on the long sides with dark red, black and light brown imbrication in diagonal lines, as well as a dark red imbricated base. The basket is topped on the sides with three rows of decorative looping in a loose diamond pattern. Each side culminates in a long wrapped semicircular handle.

Culture
Coast Salish: Squamish
Material
cedar wood, cedar root, cherry bark and grass
Made in
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket2904/4

Oblong, coiled cedar root basket with rounded sides that flare outwards slightly at the rim. The top two coils of the basket form handles on the shorter sides. Exterior walls are decorated with a dark brown and red-brown imbrication in a zigzag pattern, with light coloured grass as the background. The triangles at the bottom edge show the plain cedar root background.

Culture
Coast Salish
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, grass and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basketry2911/19

Clear glass container covered with basketry. The bottle is tall and thin, bulging slightly at its base, shoulder and rim, and indented at the neck. The fine weaving covers the exact shape of the bottle including the base. Only the top of the rim and interior are uncovered. There is some very faded decoration in the weaving on the body, however, a bright red ring is still clearly visible on the base.

Culture
Makah
Material
glass, swamp grass, cedar bark and dye
Made in
Washington, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket2911/17

Rectangular cedar basket with attached lid. Imbricated inverted triangles in dark red, black and light brown decorate each side. The lid is attached to the basket by two hide thongs on one of the longer sides. It is flat with a slightly raised edge and a wrapped and braided half circle handle at the centre also attached with leather thongs. The lid has an inner rim that sits inside the basket, and the top is decorated with several lines of imbrication down the centre and an encircling line around the edge.

Culture
Coast Salish: Squamish
Material
cedar wood, cedar root, cherry bark, grass and rawhide skin
Made in
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket2911/15

Rectangular basket. The sides flare slightly toward the rim. The construction is cedar root wrapped over a slat structure. The basket is decorated with a series of imbricated open triangles in dark red and light brown, with black included in the bottom. Small areas of imbrication in dark red can be seen along the base.

Culture
Coast Salish: Squamish
Material
cedar wood, cedar root, cherry bark and grass
Made in
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket2911/9

Rectangular cedar basket with two side handles. Basket is made of cedar slats with root wrapping. Two inverted triangles of dark brown and red imbrication decorate each long side, while an inverted triangle of red and white imbrication decorated each short end. There are a few bars of Imbrication also embellishes the base. The basket is topped with several rows of wrapped looping in a loose triangle pattern, each culminating in a long, wrapped, semicircular handle.

Culture
Coast Salish: Squamish
Material
cedar wood, cedar root, cherry bark and grass
Made in
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket2911/8 a-c

Rounded cedar basket with lid. The basket is flat at the back, rounded at front and sides, and flaring from the rear corners toward the front. The sides are vertically straight. The lid (part b) was at one time attached by two hide thongs at the back, which remain. A handle (part c) was once attached to the front curve of the basket, and a long leather thong that tied the basket closed hangs from the front just under the rim. The lid has a leather receiving loop for the thong. The top of the lid and bottom of the basket are decorated with large imbricated diamonds, while the sides have several smaller imbricated diamonds.

Culture
Coast Salish: Squamish
Material
cedar wood, cedar root, cherry bark, rawhide skin and canary grass
Made in
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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