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BasketA1121

A cylindrical basket with alternate twined and wicker weaving. Repeating pattern of three vertical bands of natural cedar, two red and one purple-black.

Culture
Heiltsuk
Material
dye and cedar bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA1122

A brown basket mainly plaited with rows of twisted twined work bordering horizontal strips of twilling. Rim is braided. Central horizontal band bordered by dyed (brown) cedar root twined work, band has cedar bark warp with cedar root and dyed cedar root (brown) twilled pattern. Upper and lower bands are the same technique but cedar root is plain and pink design appears on both interior and exterior of the basket.

Culture
Heiltsuk
Material
dye, cedar root and cedar bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dance ScreenA7234

Dance screen made from a length of rough burlap with a vertical seam at the centre. Folded over and sewn at the top with a fringe along the bottom. Painted with a totem pole shown in profile in black, red and green at the lower center. The topmost figure on the totem pole has a long beak.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
hemp fibre ? and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dance ScreenA7233

Large brown, loosely woven dance screen with painted designs. The screen is made from pieces of fabric sewn together, creating vertical seams. Across the top is a painting of a sisiutl in black, red, and green. Below and against each side, are totem poles, facing one another. The poles have a red raven on top and a green bear-raven transformation ? on the bottom. The top edge of the screen is doubled over, to be hung from a wooden rod. The bottom edge has a twisted fringe.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
hemp fibre ? and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dance ScreenA7232

Woven brown dance screen with painted design. The dance screen has an open weave and is made of several pieces sewn together with vertical seams. The top edge has been folded over and sewn, to be mounted on a wooden pole. The central design is a totem pole in black, red and green. The pole has two raven motifs; the raven in red holds his head up, the raven in green is looking down. There is a twisted fibre fringe on the lower edge.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
stinging nettle fibre ?, paint and bird feather
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MatA1126

Round mat with ragged central dark blue circle surrounded by a concentric dark blue, purple, and green band. Two figures in red and purple are around the middle at either side. Outer rim edge is green, purple, and dark blue. Wrapped twined weaving (which is diagonal to the warp on the correct side and vertical to the warp on the reverse side).

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
aniline dye and swamp grass
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basketry HatA1129

Basketry hat with various twined weaves. Brim is done in both a mixed twined weave, which produces rows of weaving, and a plain twined weave with diagonal twined weave skip stitches, which produce a chevron twill pattern. The crown has a three-strand twined weave interspersed with bands of plain twined weave (i.e. two-strand twined weave) on the top of the crown. Inner support: interior head band of diagonal twined weave. Applied expansive design in black, red and green paint.

Culture
Heiltsuk
Material
paint and spruce root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Baby CarrierA1138

Basketry cradle of simple interlocking coiled work with bifurcated stitches. Parallel slat base construction with single stitch side reinforcement and an overcast rim. The rim has continuous imbrication in red cherry bark. The body has the first four slats beaded in four rows of white bullrush and one row of black cherry at the head of the cradle. Double-row stepped design in red cherry scattered over the rest.

Culture
Coast Salish ?
Material
cherry bark, cat-tail grass ? and cedar root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ClubA1406

Cylindrical, slightly curved, handle that has nine flat angular sides. Carved rounded circular head with a flat upraised top which has a circular grooved centre. Incised with circular lines all around the rounded base of the head.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA3679

Mask with prominant nose and a mouth with slightly downturned corners. The mask is painted white with heavy black eyebrows accentuated with black lines above them, red nostrils bordered in black, red lips and chin, a heavy black moustache with curled ends, and black under the mouth as well as around the chin. There is also a black curvilinear design on the mask's right cheek.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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