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Hat3103/3

Woven basketry hat. Hat is bowl shaped with round brim tapering to slightly concave crown. Imbricated designs in dark brown of three parallelograms at the brim, two combed lines at the brim and crown, stacked triangles around the middle and a three pronged circle on the crown. Weaving pattern changes at the centre top.

Culture
Yurok
Material
willow wood ?, root, grass ? and dye
Made in
California, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3103/2

Bent bark, square basket with rounded mouth. Rim was lined with fabric, then overcast with root. The outside is decorated with a pattern of alternating golden brown or brown squares between two bands of triangles. (Parts of the rim have thin fibres or plastic string inside.)

Culture
Gitxsan
Material
birch bark, root, plant fibre ?, cotton fibre and plastic
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3100/16

Woven basket. Base is constructed of large strips of cedar bark, while sides are woven from smaller strips. Basket is flexible. Two horizontal strips of cedar have been coloured at top just under the rim.

Culture
Haida
Material
cedar bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Rope3100/15

Coiled and twisted cedar bark rope. Coil is held together by a wide strip of bark wrapped around it, in one place, with printing in ink on one end: "3 ply cedar bark made by Hanna Marks 1976".

Culture
Haida
Material
cedar bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basketry3100/13 a-b

Basketry-wrapped glass bottle and lid. Bottle (part a) is tall, flaring from base to shoulder, with a long thin neck. It is fully covered in finely woven basketry, with colourful images of ducks, sea creatures, boats and hunters worked into the weave, interspersed with decorative lines. The lid is plastic, and adhered to the bottle, with a loose basketry cover (part b) made of the same weave as the bottle cover, with a red encircling line and brown top.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Huu-ay-aht
Material
dye, glass, grass and plastic
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hat3100/12

Dome shaped cedar bark hat. Hat is finely woven and uses a slight step pattern in construction as it narrows toward the top. A pattern of larger weaves is interspersed with the fine, encircling the hat at each step. On the inside sits a shaped headband made in a looser weave with a long, thin, twisted chin strap, also of bark, attached to either side.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hesquiaht
Material
cedar bark
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Flute2990/640

Reed flute with cylindrical body, rectangular and vertical opening near wide mouthpiece and six stops on top and one at back. Not repaired but complete.

Culture
Chincha
Material
reed grass
Made in
Ica, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Flute2990/635

Reed flute with seven stops; string binding between first and second hole and one near open mouthpiece.

Culture
Chincha
Material
reed grass and fibre
Made in
Chincha, Ica, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Panpipes2990/634

Musical instrument, seven note reed panpipe. Each pipe made of reeds of two different diameters, with string bound joints. Two small reeds are absent. Incomplete.

Culture
Chincha
Material
reed grass and fibre
Made in
Chincha, Ica, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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White Heart3113/2 a-d

Tall glass sculpture with three cedar mount parts. A tall glass cylinder (part a), rounded at top and bottom, is the central piece in the sculpture, representing a trade bead. Its under-layer is frosted white, covered by a red frosted cut-out layer in swooping patterns and dots. It sits on a low, round cedar base (part b), carved along the edge, with a mat of woven cedar bark at centre. A hole in the middle supports a wood pole (part d) that extends throught the glass cylinder and is capped at top by small wooden lid (part c), carved similarly to the base.

Culture
Coast Salish: Stz'uminus
Material
glass, yellow cedar wood, cedar bark and paint
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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