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BasketA2279

Basket with base woven in plain checker work. The sides are twilled with crossed warp openwork and a braided border.

Culture
Northwest Coast ?
Material
cedar bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA1857

Rectangular woven basket with a handle across the top and one strand of loop work around the rim; plaited checker work and a diagonally plaited handle. Plaid design in black cedar bark; handle and loops also have black strands.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
dye and cedar bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA1858 a-b

Oval-shaped basket (a) with a flat bottom, straight sides, and a fitted lid (b). Imagery of whales, whaling canoes, and birds on sides and lid in purple, orange, red green and yellow; bands of colour trim the edges. Sides: wrapped twining. Base and warp: checker work and twined weaving. Swamp grass overlay.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Ditidaht
Material
swamp grass, aniline dye and cedar bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA1978

Cylindrical shaped plaited basket with braided rim. Light brown in colour.

Culture
Northwest Coast ?
Material
cedar bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bentwood BoxA1144 a-b

Bentwood box base (a) and woven basketry lid (b). The base has a design on two of the wider sides of a band of incised diagonal lines along the sides and top. There are two holes in each narrow side. The lid is made of strips of cedar bark in a warp and weft weave with a wide lip. The edges of the lid are upturned and stitched down with thin strips of cedar bark.

Culture
Heiltsuk
Material
cedar bark and cedar wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA1120

Basket with warp and weft plaiting and a braided rim. The base has four corners and extends up to curved sides.

Culture
Heiltsuk
Material
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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MatA7278

Long narrow mat with painted designs. There are two centered paintings in green and red within two thick black circles. One painting is of a killer whale, the other is of a thunderbird. There is a pair of dark cedar strands running around the outside border. The edge is finished using a wider strip of cedar as the outermost strand and overcasting on a core of cedar. There is a wooden dowel attached across one end.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
mud dye and cedar bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2341

Trapezoid-shaped woven basket. Base is plaited as are the bottom and the top of the sides. Main section of sides are in crossed warp twined work. The weft strands on the sides are dyed brown.

Culture
Northwest Coast ?
Material
dye and cedar bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2343

Rectangular, handbag-like woven basket with a green ribbon tie closure at the top. Bands of multicoloured linear and zigzag patterning encircle the sides; purple, orange, green and red. Base: plaited sides and wrapped twined weave.

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