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BasketNb11.355 a-b

Small, cylindrical basket (a) with a flat, fitted lid (b); lid features a central knob-like handle and is held in place by a cedar flange attached along the upper rim of the basket. Figurative imagery in black and green of birds and arrows decorates the basket's sides. Lid features a swirling, multicoloured circular motif centred around the handle.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
grass, cedar bark and dye
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA7004 a-b

Small, square basket (a) with a short, flat shoulder and a flat, square lid (b); lid is held in place by a cedar flange attached around the basket's opening. Encircling/concentric bands of multicoloured patterning go around sides of basket and lid; green, purple and red.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
cedar bark, grass and dye
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BowlIa49

Half coconut shell of an irregular circle shape. Rim has four rows of coiling attached by twelve strands which pierce the shell. Small circular plaited foot is attached with a coiled strand which zigzags over the woven section in a five-pointed star shape.

Culture
Ifugao
Material
coconut nutshell and bamboo grass
Made in
Luzon, Philippines
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA7000 a-b

Small cylindrical basket (a) with a flat, horizontal shoulder and a flat, fitted lid (b); lid is held in place by a cedar flange attached around the basket's opening. Multicoloured linear and zigzagging designs around basket's sides and top of lid; blue-black star-shape in centre of lid.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
cedar bark, grass and dye
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA8457 a-b

Swamp grass covered dark brown crockery ceramic pot with lid (part b). Warp: cedar bark. Weft: natural and aniline-dyed swamp grass (purple, green, yellow). Sides (part a) and lid (part b) are wrapped twined weave with openwork of crossed warp wicker weave. Base of the pot (part a) has a small centre of checker work with plain twined or wicker-weave periphery. Sides of the pot (part a) have a design that consists of five equally spaced purple flowers with green leaves in between bordered by the two bottom bands of openwork weave with a compound band that consists of purple, yellow, and purple above the third openwork band. Lid (part b) has a plain twined handle, a band in blue and yellow around the sides, and a band with triangular edges in middle.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
cedar bark, swamp grass, dye, clay and glaze
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleA3656

Brown wood rattle consisting of two rounded pieces put together, each with a semi-cylindrical handle, creating a full rounded oval rattle. Handle is bound with metal wire. Rattle is in the form of a killer whale which curves all the way around with the tail meeting the small blow hole on top with the human figure attached to it. Black eyes in white oval in green oval with extended curving red line around and black and white u forms above. Black body is decorated with white in red circles that have abalone shell inlay at their centres. Side fins have a central abalone shell inlay surrounded by a green ovoid with a red split u at the end. Vertically black dashed tail is outlined by black and bordered by white. Human figure is red with a green area surrounded the black eyes. Cedar bark decorating the end of the tail and the human.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, cedar bark, abalone shell, fibre and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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DressH2.123

Barkcloth dress, sleeveless a-line with a v-neck. Painted with brown and yellow geometric designs at the neckine, armholes, acorss the chest, in a v shape on the torso, and in two bands near the hem on the face only.

Culture
Interior Amazonia
Material
bark and paint
Made in
Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TextileH1.13

Textile composed of a rectangle of bark cloth folded in half with two edges perpendicular to one-another sewn together and the remaining edge is left open. There is a segment left open at the centre of one sewn edge and there are two holes extending inwards slightly from the corners of the perpendicular sides. The off-white cloth is decorated with rows of stitching 1 1/2 to 2 inches apart in blue, pinkish-purple, reddish-brown, and off-white.

Culture
Quechua
Material
bark and cotton fibre
Made in
Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA5292

Komokwa mask with loon or duck perched on head. Cedar bark over sides of bird. Leather collar. Colours are red, white, black and green.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
cedar bark, leather skin, wood, metal and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SkirtA7852 d

Long, roughly rectangular section of shredded cedar bark held together with many horizontal rows of twining; fringe along one edge. Garment is badly damaged with many large holes and missing sections.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Ehattesaht
Material
cedar bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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