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BasketNa1162

Oval birch-bark basket or container with sides tapering to a square base. One piece of bark is folded and stitched at two ends with spruce root. The reinforced wood rim is lashed to body of basket with spruce root. Rim is decorated with red dyed spruce root wrapped six to eight times at centre of each side and green dyed spruce root at each of the four approximate corners. In between the dyed areas dark brown dyed spruce root which is interwoven with lashing creating a checkered effect. The walls of the basket are decorated by a horizontal scraped design, the design consists of six bands. Each band has a centre line bordered by two notched lines with the notches pointing away from each other. There are two pencil marks on the upper interior side wall.

Culture
Gitxsan
Material
wood, spruce root, birch bark and crabapple bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNa1161

Oblong, brown birch bark basket with an oval-shaped top and a rectangular bottom. Bark is bent and laced into place, with a twig splint around the rim overcast with thin strips of root; decorative bands of dark crabapple bark (?) beading are featured along the rim in several spots. Geometric and linear patterns are scratched onto the exterior sides, revealing a lighter shade of bark.

Culture
Gitxsan ?
Material
wood, spruce root, birch bark and crabapple bark ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNa1170

Birch bark basket with an oval-shaped mouth and a rectangular base. One piece of birch bark folded up with spruce root stitching visible inside and out at four corners. Same design scraped on outside of basket on three sides--three central lines with four upward diagonal lines, three triangles on two middle lines. On fourth side design has a central floral motif with diagonal lines on either side and with attached triangles on two diagonals. Design on base is rectangular, lines with attached triangles in two panels. Stitched and lashed spruce root rim with some lashing dyed red-brown in centre of each of four sides. Rim decorated with beading on each corner.

Culture
Gitxsan ?
Material
wood, spruce root, birch bark and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowA9260

Arrow consisting of long cylindrical wooden shaft with notches and wrapped sinew at each end. At the base end of the shaft are three strips of dark grey feather, each approximately 13.5 cm long, secured to the shaft with sinew. The sinew at one end is coming unraveled due to the lack of metal point.

Culture
Coast Salish: Sto:lo: Kwantlen
Material
wood, ink, sinew and feather
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowNb662

Arrow with long cylindrical wooden shaft with one end notched and broken. The other end has a metal point that is secured with wrapped sinew. The metal point is round at shaft end, but the pointed end has been flattened and cut. The opposite end of the shaft is stained with red pigment, possibly ochre, and has 2 strips of feather secured with sinew.

Culture
Coast Salish: Sto:lo: Kwantlen
Material
sinew, wood, metal, feather and pigment
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureNa1275 a-g

Figure kneeling on one leg in front of a round hole in a flat rectangular platform (a) a smaller figure also kneels beside the hole. The larger figure is dressed in a parka with the hood down. His hair is indicated by a series of lines. Facial features include curved ears, a long straight nose, deep, small oval eyes and a small straight mouth. In his raised right hand he holds a leister spear (e) with a wooden shaft and three ivory prongs (g) attached to the shaft with wrapped thread. The leister holds a fish (part b). In the other hand he holds an ivory jig hook on a thread, tied to a wooden handle (d). The smaller figure has his hood up and similar facial features as the larger figure. A separate spoon (c) has a detachable wooden handle (f). Disc number inscribed on bottom reads E8 503.

Culture
Inuit
Material
wood, stone and bone
Made in
Kangiqsualujjuaq, Quebec, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNd606

Basket with with four sides that taper inward at the base; made with uneven rectangular coiled cedar root construction. The bottom is constructed of cedar slats and the sides are cedar splints, all coiled with cedar root. Red and black cherry bark beading in horizontal bands on the four sides.

Culture
Interior Salish: Nlaka'pamux
Material
cedar wood, cedar root and cherry bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Baby CarrierNa697

Elliptically shaped cradle made of white-yellow hide stretched over a frame constructed from split branches; branch frame is bound together with cotton gauze. Hide is stitched around the top rim of the cradle with black thread.

Culture
Dene ?
Material
fibre, cotton fibre, rawhide skin and wood
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Doctor MaskNb11.225

The shape of this mask is triangular with two planes intersecting on the median of the face. The forehead is high and smooth. The forehead is overpainted by a thunderbird design in black and green with the bird's head on the mask's left side. The thunderbird has oval black eyes surrounded by a plain tapering oval and a green area, a cross shape in the ovoid nostril, and four green split u feathers. The black eyebrows of the mask are raised and extend from the nose to the back edge of the mask. The eyes are placed on the upper cheek plane, with no orb, under a projecting and sloping under-brow. The eye is shallowly engraved and its centre is a round hole. A black band is painted across the eyes with some unpainted patches showing through. The nose, from which the cheek planes slope, has black drawn-back hollow nostrils. Black and green split u thunderbird feather designs extend down the cheeks. Narrow black lips are pulled back and down showing twelve plain teeth. A ridge around the bottom of the mask, painted black in the middle, is the chin.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Tla-o-qui-aht
Material
alder wood and paint
Made in
Clayoquot, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskNb11.224

Carved, wood mask with a triangular shape coming to a point at the bridge of the nose. Bear fur spans the top of the mask and extends halfway down the back opening. The slightly raised, heavy eyebrows are painted black, extending from the back edges of the mask and meet at the upper nose. The eyes, set in a shallow recess on the plane of the upper cheek, are long and drawn out with a circular centre. The nose is long and narrow, with back thrust nostrils. Lips, painted red are rounded and drawn back, slightly parted. U-form designs on the forehead are painted green, blue and red; eyes are outlined in black with a red broken-line sunlight design above them; wave-like designs on the cheek are painted green and blue.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Tla-o-qui-aht
Material
egg tempera paint, fibre, metal, bear skin and cedar wood
Made in
Echachis, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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