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Textile3253/2

Small fragment of textile. Top is square, tightly woven, light red fabric sewn to a thick backing of plaited straw. A brown and white square sits at top centre, with two diamond shapes in the same colours to either side at bottom. A loose weaving of wool falls from the backing at bottom, made of threads in grey, white and red with a yellow border. Appears unfinished on back.

Culture
Nasca ?
Material
wool fibre, grass and dye
Made in
Ica, Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3207/6

Round basket with gammadion cross design. Woven basket has a recessed base from which rises the wall, flaring slightly outward toward rim. Weaving is fine and tight, and decoration is an imbricated pattern of an encircling line of gammadion crosses (swastikas) at centre in dark brown between rows of parallelograms in brown and shades of orange.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
grass
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3208/3 a-b

Small, tightly woven basket with lid. Base rises at centre, with a patterned weave. Round basket has a bulbous body with a decorative stepped line and small triangle pattern below the shoulder in colours of rust and dark brown. Basket rim curves inward, coloured light brown with a small checked pattern at shoulder. A lid (part b) fits onto rim, round, rising toward its centre where sits a small raised finial. Patterning on the lid matches that of the basket.

Culture
Yurok ?, Hupa ? or Karuk ?
Material
grass and dye
Made in
California, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3204/12 a-b

Birchbark basket (part a) with decorated lid (part b). Basket is round with straight sides, base and rim separate pieces of bark that have been stitched on with root ties. A scalloped bark ring has been similarly stitched on, beneath the root-wrapped lip. Lid construction is similar to basket, with a strip of birch for rim and a top piece stitched on with root. Lid design is a flower pattern in an ‘x’ shape made from dyed root. Underside of lid has a birch lining, covering the bottom root stitches.

Culture
Chipewyan
Material
birch bark, grass and dye
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3207/8

Dish shaped basket with a rounded base, wide sloping wall and braided rim. Dark brown designs decorate both exterior and interior, with four colour blocks emanating off a ring at centre, and surrounded by geometric line designs and colour blocks from the rim.

Culture
Akimel O'odham
Material
grass and root ?
Made in
Arizona, USA ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3207/5 a-b

Round basket with lid. Small basket has a recessed base from which rises the short, straight wall. Weave is fine, with two lines of imbricated design around midpoint, rectangles each with an interior panel, in colours of purple, blue and light green- likely faded. The lid fits over the mouth of the basket and is concave at centre with a convex finial. Designs similar to those on the basket encircle the finial.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
grass, spruce root and dye
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Breast Shield3205/9

Bamboo breast plate. Long row of 27 bamboo rods placed parallel to each other, attached together by plant fibre twine that is knotted at one end.

Culture
Mendi
Material
bamboo grass and plant fibre
Made in
Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Spindle3157/166

Small piece of wood, which tapers to points at both ends. There is a section of light brown reed or grass wrapped around the centre of the shaft.

Culture
Chancay ?
Material
wood and grass ?
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Panpipes3010/34

Panpipes or pan flute. Seven pipes of gradually increasing length and girth bound with strips of reed and string.

Culture
Kamentsa
Material
reed grass and plant fibre
Made in
Putumayo, Colombia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Panpipes3010/33

Panpipes or pan flute. Seven pipes of gradually increasing length and girth bound with strips of reed and string.

Culture
Kamentsa
Material
reed grass and plant fibre
Made in
Putumayo, Colombia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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