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BasketA3096

Basket in the shape of a suitcase. Side opposite lid has a large complex star figure in white, black and red, surrounded by beaded border of circles and semi-circles. Edges are decorated in red, black and white beading which creates a pattern of circles and semi-circles. The lid has a border similar in appearance to the side opposite, and an inner pattern of white chevrons and black verticals. Simple coiled work (with bifurcated stitches) with parallel slat base and lid construction.

Culture
Interior Salish: Stl'atl'imx
Material
cedar root, rawhide skin, canary grass, cherry bark, metal and cedar wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA3172

Pot shaped basket on three legs. Plain twined weave, with basket shaped by progressive division and regrouping of warp strands, and with four rows of three strand twined weave spaced at intervals.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
cedar root and spruce root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA3173

Basket with curved sides and two horizontal bands of concentric rectangles in red/yellow and yellow/red (alternating) on horizontal bands of black/red/black/red/black. Base - mixed twined work (plain twined alternating with wicker weave). Sides are plain twined. False and true embroidery.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
spruce root, grass and aniline dye
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA3179

Cylindrical woven basket with three horizontal brown bands--each five rows wide--around the sides. Twined with braided border.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
spruce root and dye
Made in
Metlakatla, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA3180

Cylindrical woven basket with a flat bottom and a raised diamond pattern woven around the rim. Three dark blue bands painted around the sides. Double-strand twined weaving with mixed twined weaving (diagonal twilled design or 'skip stitch') along top border of basket. Painted bands. Twilled band along base.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
paint and spruce root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA3181 a-b

Twined circular basket (a) with a flat bottom and a fitted lid (b). The base is a mixed twined weave (plain twined alternating with wicker weave), sides and lid have a pattern in green (three bands). Circular hole in centre of lid.

Culture
Nisga'a
Material
spruce root and aniline dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA3183

3 bands of zigzags on a black ground bordered by red. Plain twined sides with embroidered grass design alternating with crossed warp twined sections. Colour: natural.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
dye, grass and spruce root
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA3184

Woven basket with slightly flared, circular sides. Plain twined work with braided border. Four horizontal green bands.

Culture
Haida
Material
spruce root and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Burden BasketA3408

Large flared, rectangular coiled cedar root basket (bifurcated stitches). Most of basket is imbricated in cat-tail grass (?) background with vertical geometric scroll design in two parallel bands of red, and dark cherry bark. At rim are intervals of dark cherry bark stitches. On each long side is a black cherry bark cross between the vertical pattern. On lower portion of basket are "cluster of flies" checkerboard bands of red cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?), and dark cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?).

Culture
Interior Salish: Nlaka'pamux
Material
cedar root, canary grass, dye and cherry bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA5085

Rectangular flared coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with foot. Parallel slat base construction. Overcast coil handle attached with string. Imbricated designof vertically connected triangles; on long side two bands of red cherry bark with cat-tail grass (?) centers, and a wider band of dark cherry bark triangles and a background of cat-tail grass (?); shorter sides with one wide band of red cherry bark triangles on background of cat-tail grass (?). Foot has red cherry bark beading.

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