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BasketNa1170

Birch bark basket with an oval-shaped mouth and a rectangular base. One piece of birch bark folded up with spruce root stitching visible inside and out at four corners. Same design scraped on outside of basket on three sides--three central lines with four upward diagonal lines, three triangles on two middle lines. On fourth side design has a central floral motif with diagonal lines on either side and with attached triangles on two diagonals. Design on base is rectangular, lines with attached triangles in two panels. Stitched and lashed spruce root rim with some lashing dyed red-brown in centre of each of four sides. Rim decorated with beading on each corner.

Culture
Gitxsan ?
Material
wood, spruce root, birch bark and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketryNb11.234 a-b

Stout, green glass bottle covered with a twined white swamp grass sleeve (a); cork stopper with a twined cap (b). Checker work cedar bark base. Dyed swamp grass in bands as decoration: two bands of beading; whaling canoe, whale, and bird in blue.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
glass, cork bark, dye, cedar bark and grass
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketryNb11.233

Rounded, green glass bottle with a narrow neck and a twined basketry cover. Bottle serves as mould for basket shape. Has cedar bark checker work base. Swamp grass twining covers entire bottle. Dyed swamp grass decorates basket in bands. Church, steeple and trees on one side; undistinguishable design on the other side.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
grass, glass, dye and cedar bark
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNb11.232 a-b

Short, cylindrical twined basket (a) with lid (b); lid is flat, fitted, and features a knob-like handle in the centre. Repeated imagery around basket's sides of whaling canoes and thunderbirds atop whales in black, red, yellow, purple and green. Multicoloured swirling design around coloured knob in centre of lid, as well as bands of colour around the lid's sides: red, purple, green and yellow. Swamp grass over cedar bark foundation. Overlaid twining decoration in coloured swamp grass. Lid is held in place by a cedar bark flange attached around the upper rim of the basket.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
cedar bark, dye and grass
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket LidNb11.231

Small circular lid. Wrapped twining; swamp grass over cedar bark foundation. Coloured decoration in wrapped twining; concentric designs in purple, yellow and green.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
dye, cedar bark and grass
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNb11.222 a-b

Miniature, cylindrical basket woven with black-purple and yellow bands on natural swamp grass; three black geometric designs around the sides. Lid (part b) for basket has blue and yellow bands on natural grass with a black circle in the centre. The centre of the base shows strips of cedar bark.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
swamp grass, cedar bark and dye
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketryNb11.221

Spherical glass float with a woven basketry covering; openwork and four multicoloured geometric designs. Cover's flaring, open rim provides base.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
glass, swamp grass and dye
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNb11.320 a-b

Small cylindrical basket (a) with slightly flaring sides capped by a rounded, fitted lid (b). The basket's sides and top of the lid are ringed by a repeating dark blue geometric motif; sides and lid are trimmed with a multicoloured stripe of dark blue, yellow and red; centre of lid is covered with a purple circle ringed with yellow and red. Cedar bark flange of looped warp strands protruding from the upper rim of basket holds lid in place.

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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BasketNd606

Basket with with four sides that taper inward at the base; made with uneven rectangular coiled cedar root construction. The bottom is constructed of cedar slats and the sides are cedar splints, all coiled with cedar root. Red and black cherry bark beading in horizontal bands on the four sides.

Culture
Interior Salish: Nlaka'pamux
Material
cedar wood, cedar root and cherry bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNd601

Two handled basket with simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches). Decorated with partial imbrication using red and black cherry bark and tule reed. Parallel slat base construction on the coil worked handles. Design consists of a pattern of a spear-like floral motif radiating from a central stem with three sets of three on each long side and two sets of three on each short end.

Culture
Interior Salish: Stl'atl'imx
Material
cedar root and cherry bark
Made in
Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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