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Basket3254/54

Rectangular basket with low sides. The exterior is woven with thin strips of grass with alternating off-white and reddish-brown checks and zigzags. The weaving continues over the handle. The interior is woven with a standard basket weave of large strips of undyed reed or plant fibre. The rim of the basket and the handle appear to be made of strips of grass, and the base is woven from large strips of grass. (Note: basket has undergone repairs since the photo was taken.)

Culture
Samoan
Material
grass, dye and reed grass ?
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Panpipes3010/34

Panpipes or pan flute. Seven pipes of gradually increasing length and girth bound with strips of reed and string.

Culture
Kamentsa
Material
reed grass and plant fibre
Made in
Putumayo, Colombia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Panpipes3010/33

Panpipes or pan flute. Seven pipes of gradually increasing length and girth bound with strips of reed and string.

Culture
Kamentsa
Material
reed grass and plant fibre
Made in
Putumayo, Colombia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Panpipes3010/32

Panpipes or pan flute. Seven pipes of gradually increasing length and girth bound with strips of reed and string.

Culture
Kamentsa
Material
reed grass and plant fibre
Made in
Putumayo, Colombia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Panpipes3010/31

Panpipes or pan flute. Seven pipes of gradually increasing length and girth bound with strips of reed and string.

Culture
Kamentsa
Material
reed grass and plant fibre
Made in
Putumayo, Colombia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3207/7

Burden basket. Rectangular basket with three separated rows of animal designs covering all four sides. The figures are reddish-brown bark, with yellowish grass as background. The upper outside edge is reinforced with a rectangular loop of thick metal (telegraph) wire, held on with hide and fibre loops. The inside base is reinforced with a rectangular loop of root, bent at three corners.

Culture
Tsilhqot'in
Material
spruce root, water birch bark, reed grass, metal, rawhide skin and cotton fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Comb3092/11

A flat comb with 15 prongs, made from light brown sticks that are thinned at the top end, and tightly held together by a cross-bar weave. The comb is triangular in shape. The upper end is covered with a black substance and inlaid with mother-of-pearl triangles, the lower part constitutes the prongs. The comb is attached to a long thin handle, which has a small piece of twine attached to it.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
wood, mother of pearl shell and reed grass ?
Made in
Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowAa40 a-b

Metal double-barbed point (part a) with rough metal shaft (part b), fitted and sinew-wrapped in socket of shaped wooden section. This is inserted into a reed section, sinew-wrapped and glued with pitch. Intermittent wrappings of sinew continue down length of shaft. The end of the reed is notched.

Culture
Khoisan ?
Material
metal, wood, reed grass, sinew, adhesive and poison resin
Made in
Botswana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowAa39 a-b

Metal double-barbed point (part a) with a bark-covered fore-shaft, fitted into a sinew-wrapped reed (part b). The arrow is a series of reed and wood fitted together and glued with black pitch. The reed sections have further pitch-blackened sinew wrapping at the centre, end, and near the bark fore-shaft.

Culture
Khoisan ?
Material
reed grass, wood, metal, bark, sinew and adhesive
Made in
Botswana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Burden Basket43.1.53

Gift of Mrs. Ferdinand C. Smith and Mr. L. Hawley Hoffman.

Culture
Klamath
Material
tule and reed grass
Made in
California, USA
Holding Institution
Portland Art Museum
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