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BasketD3.16

Round, brown basket with a flat bottom and flared sides. Base is made from a circular birch bark panel with a pink, white and green design of stitched porcupine quills with four leaves in the centre. Two bands of coiled sweet grass with a single band of zigzagging open work between them comprise the sides; coiled sweet grass sides are all stitched with black thread.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands ?
Material
birch bark, sweet grass, porcupine quill, cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Manitoba, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketD3.17

Round, brown basket with a flat bottom and flared sides. Base is made from a circular birch bark panel with a white and green, four-leafed design of stitched porcupine quills in the centre. Two bands of coiled sweet grass with a single band of zigzagging open work between them comprise the sides; coiled sweet grass sides are all stitched with black thread. Inscribed on the bottom are the word "Williams" and the number 8 enclosed in a circle.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands ?
Material
birch bark, sweet grass, cotton fibre, porcupine quill and dye
Made in
Manitoba, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MatD3.18

Brown, oval-shaped birch bark mat with red, green, yellow and white quill decoration in the centre. Two bands of sweet grass coils with a single band of zigzagging open work between them--all sewn with black thread--encircle the central birch panel.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands ?
Material
sweet grass, birch bark, cotton fibre and porcupine quill
Made in
Manitoba, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketD3.21 a-b

Oval-shaped birch bark basket with straight, vertical sides and a flat, fitted lid. Top of lid and sides of basket are entirely covered with multicoloured quillwork--a geometric design on the lid and a zigzagging pattern around the sides. Sides of the lid are made of thin, dark brown strips of willow interwoven with flattened, white quills to create a checkered geometric pattern. Bottom of basket is made from a wooden panel nailed to the birch bark sides

Culture
Maliseet ? or Mi'kmaq ?
Material
birch bark, porcupine quill, willow wood, dye, metal and sweet grass ?
Made in
New Brunswick, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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KnifeD3.200 a-b

Slender knife with decorative quillwork handle and sheath. The sheath has two strips of quills along the length - red, yellow, green, yellow and red with white diamonds. The knife handle has quills around its circumference for the entire length. There are six rawhide tassels with quills wound around them and animal hair at their ends, at the end of the handle. The sheath is sewn together; the design is overlaid and sewn.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands
Material
rawhide skin, porcupine quill, metal, hair and dye
Made in
Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TextileA2.631

Sample of quill embroidery with stylized flower design; colours include white, yellow, navy, red, purple, green. Executed on egg-shaped piece of hide.

Culture
Arctic America
Material
deer skin ?, porcupine quill and dye
Made in
Carcross, Yukon Territory, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BeltA2.630

Rectangular belt covered with bright, multicoloured quillwork, backed with printed flannel, and bound at the ends with black velvet. Green glass beads sewn along length of belt on both edges. The design on the belt is symmetrical; closest to the edges is a pink quill in a zigzag pattern with mauve background closest to the edges and brown on the other side of the zigzag. There is a white stripe. At the centre is a yellow diamond pattern with brown background and pink strips at the centre of each diamond.

Culture
Dene ?
Material
porcupine quill, glass and cotton fibre ?
Made in
Northwest Territories, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BeltA2.629

Rectangular belt covered with multicoloured quillwork, backed with black-navy wool, lined with a row of white beads, and bound at the ends with red wool. Quills dyed red, purple, white. Geometrical design: octagons connected by an adjoining side to hexagons. Middle of figures has two parallel lines with squares in the middle.

Culture
Arctic America
Material
porcupine quill, wool fibre, glass and dye
Made in
Northwest Territories, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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