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Headdress1003/70

A large headdress with a beadwork head band that has downy white feathers above and long brown feathers extending further upward with more white feathers and some red feathers along the top. The bottom ends of the feathers are wrapped with red fabric which have horizontal rows of beadwork wrapped around them, with one green row at the centre surrounded by a bronze-coloured row and two white rows. The feathers are attached to the beadwork head band with red leather loops. The beadwork head band has a white background with a red and blue floral pattern and green leaves. Around the sides of the head band there are long tan and red coloured bands of felt and two white fur tails with brown tips.

Culture
Plains
Material
feather, fibre, glass and leather skin
Made in
Alberta, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Pestle1003/52

A white-grey stone piece with a long rounded end and a larger flattened circular end. A leather skin band is wrapped around the middle.

Culture
Plains
Material
stone and leather skin
Made in
Alberta, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Beaded Bottle1003/20 a-b

Beaded bottle. A glass bottle covered in beads with light brown hide around the bottom. The bottle has a long slim octagonal neck and a body which flares outward toward the bottom. The beadwork design consists of three horizontal rows of multi-coloured parallelograms outlined with black around the body of the bottle on a light blue background. The section between the neck and the body of the bottle has a multi-coloured starburst-shaped design outlined with black. There is a cork stopper (part b) covered with multi-coloured beadwork around the top. Colours include white, orange, yellow, red, dark blue, and green.

Culture
Plains ?
Material
glass, fibre, rawhide skin and bark
Made in
Alberta, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Belt797/7

A small leather belt with a beadwork pattern of squares of light blue outlined with white at either sides of either a white square outlined with yellow and having a red and green hour glass-like design or a yellow square outlined with white and having a dark blue and white hour glass-like design, with a vertical row of green in between. This beadwork pattern alternates with a rectangular design of metal circles. The belt is rimmed along the edges with pink along the top and the bottom.

Culture
Plains ?
Material
skin, glass, metal and fibre
Made in
Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Belt797/6

A large brown leather belt with beadwork and a metal buckle which attaches to a strap on the other end. The design consists of alternating rectangles of leather and beadwork pattern. The beadwork pattern has a yellow background on two squares with a dark blue diamond-shape at the middle of each which have a vertical line of horizontal rows of light blue, red, green, red, and light blue outlined with green running down the middle of each, and a vertical line of light blue outlined with green in between them. The belt is edged with light blue beads along the top and the bottom.

Culture
Plains ?
Material
leather skin, glass, metal and fibre
Made in
Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket1566/4

Rectangular, coiled basket with straight sides. Top coil is wavy forming open work rim. Exterior is decorated with brown and dark brown cherry bark zigzag bands that take up entire height of the basket. Two handles go across shorter dimension and are attached to the basket by loops of skin thong through the walls.

Culture
Interior Salish
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, grass, dye and skin
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Case2663/1 a-d

Part a is a case of heavy brown leather, rounded at the top and bottom edges with rounded protrusions below thick blue silk cord which is threaded through horizontally. Parts b-d are three tapered, hollow, brown-stained, cylindrical bone holders which are found inside case.

Culture
Tibetan
Material
leather skin, silk fibre and bone
Made in
Tibet
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Frontlet Headdress709/1

Ermine headdress attached to a wooden frontlet. Frontlet in painted in blue, red and black with a central figure of a humanoid face with protruding, hooked nose encircled by a red-lined ring of abalone. Two faces, one humanoid and mask-like, the other round and black with red lips, sit atop and below the main face. The eyes of all three faces are inlaid with abalone. The frontlet is attached to the front of a circular white fur cap, attached to a long train (90 cm) of white ermine pelts with brown tails sewn onto a length of white fabric backing. A vertical row of brown whiskers protrude from the cap directly behind the top of the frontlet.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
yew wood, fibre, ermine skin, paint, abalone shell, eagle down feather ? and sea lion whisker ?
Made in
'Yalis (Alert Bay), British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket1566/3 a-b

Rectangular light brown woven basket with convex fitted lid. Horizontal bands of red and black colour run the lid, while repeating vertical, alternating red and black geometric designs encircle the sides of the basket. A small looped handle sits in the centre of the lid, with more broken or damaged loops around the sides of the lid and basket.

Culture
Interior Salish
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, grass, dye, rawhide skin and fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket1346/2 a-c

Circular woven basket with flared, rounded sides and a flat, fitted lid. Lid and sides are encircled with bands of colour and repeating geometric designs. Lid has a small loop handle in its centre.

Culture
“Great Basin & Plateau ?” ?
Material
root, stem, skin and dye
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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