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BasketD3.201

Brown birch bark basket with a circular top and a square bottom. Bark is bent and laced into place, with birch twine around the rim overcast with thin strips of root; two decorative bands of crabapple beading are featured along the rim, alternating with two open cross-stitched segments.

Culture
Mi'kmaq
Material
birch bark, cedar root and crabapple bark
Made in
Morristown, Nova Scotia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ContainerD3.202

Birch bark wall hanger. Birch bark nailed together, painted with a floral design, varnished, and bound with dyed root. Hole in top for suspension. Triangular back with oblong basket at bottom for holding objects. Red binding on rim.

Culture
Mi'kmaq ?
Material
birch bark, root, paint, dye, lacquer and metal
Made in
Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketD3.203

Birch bark basket with a circular top and a square bottom. Birch bark is bent and laced together with root lashings. A split twig rim covers the top edge of the basket and is overcast with thin strips of root; a strip of bark is laced underneath the rim as reinforcement. Red and green beads are featured around the top of the rim. A strip of rawhide is strung from one side of the rim to the other as a handle.

Culture
Mi'kmaq ?
Material
birch bark, cedar root, glass and rawhide skin
Made in
Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketD3.204

Light brown birch bark basket with an oval-shaped top and a square bottom. Bark is bent and laced into place, with birch twine around the rim overcast with thin strips of root; pairs of decorative red beads are tied to the rim at four points. A handle made from a strip of rawhide is strung from one side of the rim to the other.

Culture
Mi'kmaq ?
Material
birch bark, cedar root, glass and rawhide skin
Made in
Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketD3.205

Brown birch bark basket with an oval-shaped top and a square bottom. Bark is bent and laced into place with birch twine around the rim overcast with birch root and beaded with black wire-like material; rim also has four open space filled with black cloth. Geometric and linear patterns are scratched onto the exterior sides, revealing a lighter shade of bark.

Culture
Mi'kmaq ?
Material
birch bark, birch root, cotton fibre and grass
Made in
Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketE269 a-b

Dark brown and light red-brown geometric designs on natural light ground. Jar-like shape ("olla basket"). Splint foundation with coiled elements of torote tree root; design elements are vegetable-dyed.

Culture
Seri
Material
root
Made in
Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketryE270

Circular piece of basketry. The beginnings of a coiled root basket with a frayed, unfinished end.

Culture
Seri
Material
root
Made in
Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basketry HatA1465

Basketry hat with primarily plain twined weave with some diagonal twined sections on the brim. Above the crown of the hat are a series of four cylindrical protrusions of plain twined weave around the sides of each, and twined and wicker weave on the underside of each with a hole in the topmost protrusion. Two bands of black on the brim and on the cylindrical protrusion below the topmost protrusion.

Culture
Heiltsuk
Material
cedar bark, spruce root ? and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2300

Rectangular, tan-coloured basket that is rectangular in cross section and that flares upward and outward. Simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches) with watch-spring base construction and an overcast rim. Decorated with partial imbrication in a continuous design made up of three non-distinct horizontal rows which cover the top two-thirds of the design field. The lower third is filled with bands of vertical check figures in red and white, and black and white.

Culture
Interior Salish
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, dye and cat-tail grass ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2309

Tan basket of simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches) with parallel slat base construction and a foot of two coiled rows. Decorated with partial imbrication that consists of a vertical zigzag design (three on each of the sides and one on each of the ends) in red/white/black/white/red. Foot is partially beaded in red cherry bark.

Culture
Coast Salish: Sto:lo
Material
dye, canary grass, cherry bark and cedar root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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