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BasketD1.379

Rectangular coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with foot. Parallel splint base construction. Fully imbricated design of double stitches in alternating colours of dark and red cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?). First two rows on foot imbricated in alternating red and dark cherry bark, bottom row in solid red cherry bark. Fibre string through one corner.

Culture
Interior Salish
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, cat-tail grass ?, fibre and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketD1.380

Rectangular woven basket. Simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches); parallel slat base construction: fully imbricated. Sides: three vertical bands with geometric patterning in black and white. Ends have single "arrowhead" pattern. Colour: tan.

Culture
Interior Salish
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, cat-tail grass ? and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketD1.381

Rectangular coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with coiled handle and looped border. Parallel splint base construction. Handle is tied with string. Fully imbricated, background in cat-tail grass (?), diamond design in dark and red cherry bark with cat-tail grass (?) centers, each divided by vertical band of black and red. Upper and lower border of black cherry bark checkerboard squares, with bands of black cherry bark at long sides, with one band of red cherry bark, and cherry bark bands at sides.

Culture
Interior Salish
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, cat-tail grass ?, fibre and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketD1.382

Cylindrical flared coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with rawhide ties which formed a handle at one time. Watch-spring base construction. Four rows are beaded, top two near rim in red cotton, the next in red cherry bark at the middle of basket, and the last in dark cherry bark near the bottom. The bottom also has a row of beaded red cherry bark.

Culture
Interior Salish
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, cotton fibre, rawhide skin and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketD1.383

Rectangular coiled basket (bifurcated stitches). Parallel splint base construction. Imbricated design of two bands, upper band outlined in dark cherry bark with inner checkerboard design in red cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?), the lower band outlined in red cherry bark with dark cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?) in diagonal pattern. Had handles on either long side at one time.

Culture
Interior Salish
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, cat-tail grass ? and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketD1.384

Basket with round front and flat back constructed in simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches) with a watch-spring base construction and a lid at the top. The basket is decorated with partial imbrication in two rows of staggered diamond shapes in red/off-white bulrush/red alternating with black/off-white bulrush/black. The lid has a continuation of the top row of diamond pattern and small triangles in black and red and is attached with rawhide hinges.

Culture
Interior Salish
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, cat-tail grass ?, rawhide skin and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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CombC1415

Comb with a handle which tapers to a straight edge. The main design along the handle is woven with red and natural-coloured weave in between radial bands of dark brown wood along the lower portion and with natural-coloured and dark brown weave along the upper portion. Forty long teeth fan outward radially. The teeth are secured by a natural-coloured weave between each tooth.

Culture
Kwaio
Material
wood, fibre, tree fern, morinda bark and morinda root
Made in
Malaita, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceC1429 a-c

Three braided black root necklaces (parts a-c) folded up.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
root
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureC1516

Large root figure with a cylindrical shaped body that curves outwards. The body narrows slightly then expands in an oval shape that is detailed as a head. Incised on either side are fish heads that are positioned to appear as the eyes of the figure. There is an engraved line that outlines the figures head and its mouth. There is a protruding section of the root that appears as a nose. In the body is an incised body of a fish. There are remnants of black pigment on the surface.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
root and pigment
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketD1.387

Cylindrical bowl on pedastal coiled basket (bifurcated stitches). Watch-spring base construction. Fully imbricated in continuous design of two rows of filled in zigzag pattern in dark cherry bark, and red cherry bark separated by cat-tail grass (?). Foot (pedastal) has geometric scroll design in band of each colour. Basket had looped border at one time.

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