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Basket LidA8999

Spruce root basket lid; plain twined work. Continuous stripes of rectangles joined through the center with a line. Decorated with two lines of dyed spruce root; one on the top and the other along the side. Lid is concave. Colour: brown.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
spruce root and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA8998

Woven spruce root basket; base is mixed twined work. Sides are plain twined with twilled border and braided rim. Design created by dyed weft strands. Four horizontal bands (six rows wide) with colours alternating with every warp strand, creating purple and red vertical stripes on a horizontal band. Twilled diamond pattern on border. Two rows of purple weft on base.

Culture
Northwest Coast ?
Material
dye and spruce root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA8997

Twined spruce root basket; plain twined work with twilled border and false embroidery. Diagonally striped band of brown and natural spruce root directly under twilled border. "Skip-stitch" pattern of diagonal lines. Braided border.

Culture
Northwest Coast ?
Material
dye and spruce root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA8994

Twined spruce root basket; plain twined work with twilled pattern. False embroidered bands. Bands of red/green/red (Emmons' strawberry weave) in alternating coloured/natural; diagonal twilled pattern running through bands.

Culture
Northwest Coast ?
Material
dye and spruce root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA8993

Spruce root basket with lid; sides - two strand twined with overlaid twined weaving (false embroidery); base - twined and wicker weaving. Sides - natural grass meander pattern on black ground; top - meander pattern minus bottom line. Lid is attached to base by one stitch.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
dye, grass and spruce root
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA8992

Open spruce root basket; fine twined work; braided border; embroidered design. Two ribbons of pattern in yellow on black ground bordered by red; in the centre is a stepped design in squares of yellow/green/yellow on a red ground bordered by black.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
dye, swamp grass and spruce root
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA8991

Twined spruce root basket; base is mixed twined work (plain twining alternation with plain twining). Sides are plain twined; design is false and true embroidered. Two double rows of diagonal twined work near base in natural and dark brown. Main ribbon of design has the "tattoo" pattern (Emmons, Desing 35) (a sideways "h") in dark brown, and a stepped design in yellow/brown/yellow. Bordered by yellow bands, and all on brown bands. Dark brown rim.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
spruce root, grass and dye
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BagD1.19

Oblong skin bag with a two prong, flap opening edged with orange and green beads that stretch into a rectangular section of skin with a navy bead edging and a skin tie with blue beads sewn on the ends. This is followed by a square shaped beaded lozenge pattern in pink, blue, yellow, black, and orange that ends with a long skin fringe.

Culture
Ktunaxa ?
Material
skin and glass
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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