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Basket3000/29

Small canoe-shaped basket. Basket is oblong, ends narrow, with a flat base and curved walls topped by an open, scalloped rim. Decoration is a square weave of black imbrication along base and rim, and dark red across the scallop design.

Culture
Coast Salish ?
Material
wood, cedar root, dye and cherry bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SS Glad Tidings Crossing Wrights Sound3000/8

Drawing in charcoal, on thick paper. The image is of a boat and small canoe caught in a storm, large waves crashing, while a beam of sunlight appears at the top right corner. Three figures are visible on deck of the boat, which is identified in writing below the image as the S.S. Glad Tidings.

Culture
Tsimshian
Made in
Port Simpson, British Columbia, Canada and Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Inkstand3000/6 a-b

Wood instand with glass inkwell. Base (part a) is made of a low square of cut wood. Top back is flat, while front is curved concavely. The wood is painted dark brown. A round hole is bored through the centre back to hold the glass container (part b). Inkwell is round, with a thick bottom that flares toward the thick rim at top. A paper label is nailed to the front edge. Label reads: "This Inkstand is made from timber taken from the “S.S. GLAD TIDINGS”, First Methodist Mission Boat on the British Columbia Coast., 1884 - 1903".

Culture
Canadian
Material
wood, glass, paper, metal and ink
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Rug3000/3

Long, thin woven rag rug. The warp is made of a thick, soft rope-like fibre and burlap that terminate at each end in loops. The weft is made of thick wool, woven in regularly spaced lines of red and black, white and black, red and blue, and red and brown. At each end is a wide stripe of red, yellow and tan.

Culture
Canadian
Material
wool fibre, cotton fibre, dye and jute fibre ?
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3000/36 a-c

Large rectangular basket with lid. Walls of basket angle outward from base to inset rim. Decoration is offset groups of beading across entire surface, three lines to a group, in yellow-brown, brown and black. A small cedar loop is attached to the front centre, with a thin braided cord in proximity for fastening the basket closed. Lid (part b) fits snuggly on top of inset rim and has similar pattern to basket on lip and surface. Part c is a small half-circle handle that has broken off one of the short sides of the basket. Both basket and lid have twisted cotton cord remnants on one long side, indicating that the two were once attached.

Culture
Coast Salish ?
Material
grass, cherry bark, dye, cedar root, wood and cotton fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3000/35 a-d

Large rectangular cedar basket. Walls of basket angle outward from base to inset rim. Decoration is imbricated bark in dark red, black and light tan, large diamonds on the short ends and wide ‘x’ shapes on the long sides. Lid (part b) fits snuggly on top of inset rim and has a series of small imbricated squares across the top surface. Parts c and d are thick, rounded handles that were once attached to the short sides of the basket at the rim.

Culture
Coast Salish ?
Material
grass, dye, cedar root, cherry bark, wood and cotton fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3000/34

Large oblong basket. Base is rectangular, with thick walls flaring upward with a slight curve, and rounded corners. The weave overall is small and tight. Imbricated decorations have faded and decayed but suggest many vertical lines of cherry bark across the surface of the basket, with small squares of the same attached to both sides of the lines at regular intervals.

Culture
Coast Salish ?
Material
root and cherry bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3000/32

Long, oval cedar basket. Walls of basket angle very slightly outward from base to rim, where a row of twisted cedar lines the mouth. Two long flexible handles of wrapped cedar cross the basket and are attached to its long sides with leather thongs. Decoration is a wide encircling stepped line, in imbricated red and black bark.

Culture
Coast Salish ?
Material
grass, dye, cedar root, cherry bark and rawhide skin
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3000/31 a-b

Large rectangular basket. Walls of basket (part a) angle outward from base to inset rim. Decoration is an imbricated diamonds, large in the centre, small at top, and lines at bottom and corners, in light brown, dark red and black. Rim is decorated in a thin line of imbrication in the same colours. Lid (part b) fits snugly onto basket lip, and is divided into two sides by a thick line of checked imbrication. Each side has several small diamonds in light brown, dark red, and black. Handles were once attached to the basket’s short sides and lid at centre.

Culture
Coast Salish ?
Material
grass, dye, cedar root, cherry bark and wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3000/30 a-b

Large rectangular cedar basket. Walls of basket (part a) angle outward from base to inset rim. Decoration is a series of imbricated inverted triangles that form three vertical lines on long sides, and on short sides a single line, with two thin flanking lines. Lid (part b) top has two interlocking diamonds in light brown and black imbrication.

Culture
Coast Salish ?
Material
grass, dye, cedar root, cherry bark and wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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