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Twined Medicine Bag with Thunderbird Design46.100.32

By exchange

Culture
Hochunk
Material
bison wool, nettle fibre and yarn
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Hook1954.9.77

Wooden fish hook with bone point lashed on with cedar bark. A length of nettle fibre twine is tied to the hook and wound around it. [LM 18/06/2007]

Culture
Haida Makah ?
Material
animal sinew, bone, cedar bark, yew wood plant and nettle fibre plant ?
Made in
“British Columbia Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands); ?Washington Neah Bay” ?
Holding Institution
Pitt Rivers Museum
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Hook1951.6.61

Wooden halibut hook with iron nail bound on as barb and carved with an octopus figure. [CAK 26/06/2009]

Culture
Haida
Material
wood, iron metal, string, spruce root plant ? and nettle fibre plant ?
Made in
British Columbia Haida Gwaii NW Coast, Canada
Holding Institution
Pitt Rivers Museum
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BagD1.4

Woven bag with rows of geometric shapes in red, blue, black, yellow and green. Different pattern on other side of with similar shapes in brown, black, red and blue. Skin loops at top and bottom corners on one side, and skin thong loops all around the opening.

Culture
Plateau
Material
nettle fibre, skin, fibre and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BagH2.1

Cylindrical, light beige-coloured woven basket with a flat bottom and straight sides--geometric patterning in pink, red, purple, yellow, orange and blue encircles the sides.

Culture
Andes
Material
hemp fibre ?, sisal fibre ?, nettle fibre ? and dye
Made in
Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeadbandIe408

A band of brown string wound over wood, tapering to two arms with loops, one fitted through the other. The top feathers are red, green, yellow, white, blue, and grey and decorate the wide part. Cowrie shells line the lower edge. Below, on strings, there are hanging two lines of small cowries, two single cowrie shells and two fragments of other shells.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood, parrot feather, clam shell ?, cowrie shell and nettle fibre
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA5037

Upward flaring, rounded, cylindrical basket decorated with a light yellow-brown vertical zigzag pattern on a brown background. Rim is looped.

Culture
Coast Salish: Quinault
Material
nettle fibre and grass
Made in
Washington, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NetA4410

Knotted net bag of nettle fibre--decreases in diameter toward the bottom. Top edge attached to twisted cedar rope. This rope is attached on two sides to a wooden loop made by bending a twig and lashing the ends together. (These were probably attached to sticks as a means of suspending the net.)

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
wood, nettle fibre and cedar bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA5201

Dark brown twined basket woven in a white fibre to create a geometric pattern. Basket has loops of nettle fibre sewn around the rim.

Culture
Coast Salish: Quinault
Material
dye and nettle fibre
Made in
Washington, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA5220

Twined, rounded basket with twisted loops on the rim. False embroidery. Design consists of vertical zigzags imposed on vertical stripes.

Culture
Coast Salish: Quinault
Material
nettle fibre and dye
Made in
Washington, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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