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Mat1435/2

A small circular light brown woven mat with a green circle line around the middle and dark brown and orange within. The main design consists of three equally spaced dark brown canoes with tow orange and dark brown people inside. The outside has three circular lines of alternating green and orange parallelograms.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
grass and dye
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Apron1485/16

Apron composed of woven fibre with two neck straps that have brown tufts of fur at the ends, and a fringe composed of strips of woven fibre with brown fur and longer brown and black hair attached at the ends as well as chains of braided rings made of bamboo strips(?) and brown grass(?). There are tufts of reddish-brown fur at the top of each chain, and the apron is decorated with red, blue and white pigment.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
plant fibre, hair, skin, bamboo grass ?, grass ? and pigment
Made in
Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MatEdz1854

Rectangular mat with fringe. The mat has light and dark natural coloured strands woven in a diagonal pattern. There is a fringe on the two ends.

Culture
Chinese
Material
grass
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MatEdz1853

Rectangular mat with fringe. The mat has light and dark natural coloured strands woven in a diagonal pattern. There is a fringe on the two ends.

Culture
Chinese
Material
grass
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNbz828

Oblong coiled cedar root basket with overcast rim. Parallel slat base and wall construction. Decorated with vertical, imbricated columns in cat-tail grass with red cherry bark designs (cluster of flies pattern).

Culture
Coast Salish
Material
cedar root, wood, cat-tail grass and cherry bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket1431/9 a-b

Brown-red coloured birch bark container with lid. The container is wider at the bottom, has rectangular bark panels connected to each other side-by-side by vertical bark stitching, and narrows towards a protruding red-brown bark-wrapped rim. The lid consists of a round piece of bark with a scalloped edge over top of a circular bark panel and fastened by bark stitches.

Culture
Arctic America ?
Material
birch bark and root
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Coconut Container1485/9

Conical shape, woven container with small flat, oval shaped bottom, a bamboo rim and a chevron pattern on the sides. There is a circular fibre tie on the side.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
plant fibre and bamboo grass
Made in
Western Province, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNbz827

Rectangular basket with a convex lid hinged by three hide straps. Design consists of lighter coloured dashes (grass) on a natural brown background. A horizontal row of black bark dashes also goes around the bottom and the top, with red bark around the middle.

Culture
Coast Salish
Material
cedar root, cedar wood, cherry bark, grass and rawhide skin
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNbz831

Rectangular coiled cedar root basket with overcast handle. Imbricated geometric design in two rows around sides.

Culture
Coast Salish: Musqueam
Material
cedar root, grass, dye and cherry bark
Made in
Mount Currie, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ornament1461/5

An ornament with the central piece being a flat, round, circular shell from which dangles a cowrie shell surrounded by black-brown seed beads and two strings of green and red beads with a seashell at each end and a plant fibre, possibly grass, below. The central piece has the following written in pencil: "BELE & KARE Tamana".

Culture
Motu
Material
fibre, seed, cowrie shell and grass ?
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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