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Model Baby CarrierNd694

Small basketry baby carrier, or cradle, with coiled construction and slat foundation. Rim is imbricated in black cherry bark and brown grass. Sides are beaded in light yellow-brown grass in two rows of coils around front half of cradle and red cherry bark along sides and front. Cloth loops are fastened inside with thread on both sides.

Culture
Interior Salish
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, fibre, grass and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNb22.82

Cup-shaped basket with slightly flaring sides. Bottom has 10 rows of twining to start and the remainder alternates twining and plaiting. Sides are twined with raised parallel vertical rows of twill twined zigzags. Evenly spaced, overlaid (false embroidered) diamond shapes in 2 horizontal rows. Rim is twill twined with vertical warps exposed at top.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
spruce root and grass
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNd679

Part (a) Coiled, round basket (with bifurcated stitiches) with fitted lid (b). Watch-spring construction. Fully imbricated with light yellow-brown grass. Design of rows of large arrows in black and red cherry bark. Lid is watch-spring coiled with small hide loop handle. Completely imbricated with grass and design of five rows of dark and red cherry bark.

Culture
Interior Salish: Stl'atl'imx: Lil'wat ?
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, skin, grass and dye
Made in
Mount Currie, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Whaler's HatNb11.336

Conical hat (no liner) with knob at crown; wrapped twine cedar warp over 3-corner grass horizontal weft; inner weft of swamp grass. Purple-black dyed cedar decoration with three rows of checkerboard at bottom (rows 3-5). On main brim of hat are two horizontal bands with a whaler, holding a harpoon, standing in a canoe with a whale to the right. Above each canoe is a line with three diagonal spurs along top of line and at widest point of knob are three checkerboard rows. Twining varies in element size with wider elements in four rows around centre, at brim, below meander and on knob. Inside is cedar slat head band with evenly spaced, wide, vertical grass supports worked into the basketry at top of band and ending in two rows of twine at bottom.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
grass, cedar root, cedar bark and dye
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ChairNi22

Circular based chair has rectangular back and curved armrest with same decorative intertwined bamboo splints. Bamboo splints interwoven in plait-like weave on seat, surrounded by bamboo grass tied with bark. Support of 2 inverted v shaped branches, one part of branch in base the other extends behind chair; all joints affixed with black glue. Criss-crossing bark under seat, and wrapping around rim underneath gathered bamboo grass. Base: wide smooth overlapping wood strip forms circular base; crisscrossing bamboo strips extend upward from base to wooden rim at bottom of chair seat. Black adhesive is used on all joints.

Culture
Huichol
Material
chautle root adhesive ?, cactus fibre ?, bark, bamboo grass and wood
Made in
Jalisco, Mexico and Nayarit, Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNd566 a-b

Part (a) Urn shaped coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with short foot, and lid, part (b). Imbricated downward pointing arrow designs, alternating in black and red cherry bark. Six imbricated cross designs in black and red cherry bark with grass centers. Lid had coiled loop handle in centre.

Culture
Interior Salish
Material
cherry bark, grass and cedar root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNd590

Coiled, rectangular cedar basket with rounded corners; flares out at bottom. Elongated watch-spring coiled bottom. Horizontal rows of i-shaped motifs extend around basket; alternating red and white and black with white imbricated motifs.

Culture
Interior Salish: Nlaka'pamux
Material
cedar root, cherry bark and grass
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNd589 a-b

Coiled, cylindrical cedar basket (a) with lid (b). Imbricated with light yellow grass and wild cherry bark. Slat bottom. Watch-spring coiled lid; one leather tie on outer edge of lid with geometric and representational designs over basket body; net of diamond shapes with animal figures inside. Lid has floral pattern radiating from centre.

Culture
Interior Salish: Stl'atl'imx
Material
cedar root, cedar wood, grass, leather skin and cherry bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MatNb11.260

Flat woven mat with a double row of string trim around the outer edge. Double banded circular design in faded purple, remainder in natural grass colour.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
spruce root ? and cotton fibre
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TrayNd598

Tray with circular shape and two handles. Constructed of watch-spring coiling with wild cherry bark and grass imbrication in circle and diamond motif on inside edge, and inside of tray.

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