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Coat1/2307 A

Culture
Eskimo
Material
skin, feather, hide and sinew
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
American Museum of Natural History
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TrousersDN/707
BasketA8460 a-b

Part (a) Rectangular coiled storage basket (bifurcated stitches) with lid, part (b). Parallel base construction and elongated watch-spring coiled lid construction. Fully imbricated with cat-tail grass (?) and vertical zig-zag rows alternating in red and dark cherry bark. Two coil handles over rawhide on each short side. Basket has inner and outer rim. Row of solid cherry bark imbrication at outer rim and at base. Lid also fully imbricated with cat-tail grass(?) and has two continuous horizontal zig-zag rows of dark cherry bark near rim and red cherry bark above. Rectangular outlines in dark cherry bark around center, with red cherry bark filled in. Coil handle is missing at center.

Culture
Interior Salish ?
Material
cedar root, cat-tail grass ?, cherry bark, rawhide skin and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket2785/2 a-b

Rectangular basket with lid (part b). Cedar slat and root construction. Decoration is four horizontal bands of light coloured grass, and large diamond patterns of red and brown bark are woven into the four sides, with red and brown rectangles decorating the lid. Handle straps consist of two off-white strips of hide, spliced at each end, looped through the bark weave of each long sides and knotted.

Culture
Interior Salish ?
Material
cedar root, cedar wood, rawhide skin, cherry bark and grass
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket2695/13 a-b

Rectangular basket (part a) with lid (part b). The basket a rectangular base, slightly flared sides and rounded handles on each end. The handles are secured to the inside with leather skin ties. Simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches) with a slat foot and overcast splint rim. The basket has a continuous imbricated design of two bands zigzagging in cat-tail, red and black cherry bark. The lid has a imbricated diamond design with two bands.

Culture
Coast Salish
Material
cedar root, skin, cat-tail grass ?, cherry bark and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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OrnamentA8852 a-b

Five whale teeth tied to a leather thong. Broken in two pieces. One piece (part a) has two large teeth of similar size. The other piece (part b) has three teeth, two small and one medium in size.

Culture
Nuxalk
Material
leather skin and whale tooth
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Wolf Pendant2776/1

Three-dimensional wolf head pendant carved from yew on a leather chain. Pendant has inlaid abalone squares around outside edge, and ovals as eyes and inlaid pieces around outer ear edges. Features around lips, inner ears and negative space of pendant are painted red. Copper cut-outs used as eyebrows, sides of nose, tongue, inner ears and claws of front feet. There are also very small circles of copper inlaid between the abalone along the edge. A fine braided leather chain with a gold clasp is attached through a gold fixture on the back of the pendant. Back has seven small holes, six of which contain copper rivets; artist signature Reid-'77.

Culture
Haida
Material
leather skin, gold metal, yew wood, abalone shell, copper metal and paint
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headdress2783/1

A headdress with a beadwork head band trimmed cap made of skin and beige fabric from which extends a crown of long brown eagle feathers. Each feather has an attached diamond-shaped piece of burgundy velvet fabric with white down feathers at the tip and the bottom ends are wrapped with green and red felt-like fabric and attached to the cap above the beadwork with skin loops. The head band has a design of mountains and crosses in red, green, orange, blue and pink on a white background, a large metal pin at the centre, and strands of metal, plastic and seed beads draped around it. From each side of the cap hang feathers, red ribbons with plastic hoops, bundles of dark hair, and strands of brass beads.

Culture
Plains
Material
eagle feather, glass, skin, metal, cotton fibre, hair, plastic and adhesive
Made in
Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Boots426/30 a-b

Pair of boots with molded goat leather soles and turned up toes, attached to woven goat wool and dark red cotton uppers with vertical strips of blue cotton running up the back. Lined with coarse wool.

Culture
Ladakhi
Material
goat skin, wool fibre, cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Jammu-Kashmir, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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