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BasketA2.621

Brown birch bark basket with an oval-shaped top and a rectangular bottom. Bark is bent and laced into place, with birch twine around the rim overcast with thin strips of root. A string handle is tied to either side of the rim.

Culture
Dakelhne: Nat'ooten: Babine
Material
birch bark, birch root ? and fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2.622

Dark brown birch bark basket with an oval-shaped top and a square-shaped bottom--bark is bent and laced together with birch root. Splint around rim is overcast and then partially beaded with crabapple bark (4-5 stitches every 1-1 1/4 in).

Culture
Dakelhne: Nat'ooten: Babine
Material
birch bark, birch root ?, crabapple bark and stain ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2.623

Woven basket with a circular basket and straight, vertical sides. Open twined weaving with weft strand far apart but with wrapped warp border at top and wool overlay embroidery. Hourglass design motif in red with blue-green ends and blue-green with red ends.

Culture
Aleut
Material
sea grass and wool fibre
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2.624

Circular utility basket with braided rope at top. Two strand twined openwork weave with warp strands alternating double bound: wool yarn bound round weft strands at top. Four horizontal bands in blue with red dotted lines in interior resulting from wool wound around weft strands.

Culture
Aleut
Material
sea grass, grass and wool fibre
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basketry CupA2.627

Basketry cup. Plain twined work. Fully false embroidered stepped design (called shaman's hat design) in red and yellow on a natural grass ground. Coated with laquer inside.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
spruce root, aniline dye, swamp grass and lacquer
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNb22.81 a-b

Woven basket with base and lid. Base - mixed twined weaving: sides - plain twined work with mixed twined work border; lid - plain twined with rattle section: design is false embroidered. Sides - two bands of a "meander" pattern in purple on brown bordered with red. Lid - similar pattern; false embroidery on lid is green; lid has raised centre that rattles.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
spruce root, aniline dye and swamp grass
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2.636

Square flared coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with parallel slat base construction. Imbricated "diamond" design (incomplete shapes) in red bark and grass on upper half of basket, on three sides. Short bands of diagonal lines, in darker bark, three on short sides, six on one long side. Fourth side has four checkered vertical lines in red bark and grass.

Culture
Tsilhqot'in
Material
bark, reed grass, spruce root and wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNd633

Coiled basket with bifurcated stitches; elongated watch-spring base construction; fully imbricated. The design from bottom to top: three rows of red beading; discrete diamond shapes; discrete animal figures; four staggered rows of crosses; triangles around rim; all in red on bullrush ground. Colour: tan.

Culture
Tsilhqot'in
Material
cat-tail grass ?, cherry bark and cedar root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2.677

Flat-bottomed, rectangular basket with flaring sides. Simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches); parallel splint base construction; overcast rim; partial imbrication. Vertical striped design. Colour: tan.

Culture
Interior Salish: Nlaka'pamux
Material
cat-tail grass ?, cedar root and cherry bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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CombC1077

A handle which tapers to a simple finial that has three horizontal carved rings underneath. Ten long teeth fan outward radially. Twisted fibre cord is coiled around the middle.

Culture
Maori
Material
fibre and bamboo grass
Made in
New Zealand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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