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Basketry LidA2404

Oval-shaped basket lid of simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches) with parallel slat construction. Reinforced row in centre. Decorated with partial beading. Sides are imbricated in black-dyed cherry bark and cat-tail grass. Colour: tan.

Culture
Coast Salish ?
Material
cherry bark, dye, cat-tail grass ? and cedar root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketK4.207

Basket (part a) and a cover (part b) with a traditional design woven in and having a design that consist of a checkerboard alternated with man and antelope (part a) in black and natural colours. Basket (part a) has checkered handles. The lid (part b) has eight black squares around the edges.

Culture
Barotse
Material
palm leaf
Made in
Zambia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketK4.343

Conical, coiled basket of false emboidery with splint foundation, watch-spring base construction, and bifurcated stitches. Main design that consists of two horizontal rows of downward pointing, light yellow-brown triangles edged with dark brown on a brown background and bordered by dark brown. The triangles alternate in such a way that the downward points of the larger, upper row of triangles connect to the upper corners of the lower, smaller row of triangles. The inside of the basket reflects the same pattern from the outside but has the appearance of four brown petals with a larger brown petal above in between. The double rim is brown.

Culture
Ovimbundu
Material
grass and sisal fibre
Made in
Angola
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA17098 a-c

Natural coiled cedar root storage basket (part a) with a lid (part c) and a handle (part b). Simple interlocking coiled work with bifurcated stitches on the sides. Parallel slat bottom and lid (sewn at edges), and a single slat, coiled foot. Cross-stitched border to the lid. Red and black geometric pattern. The lid (part c) has a large red and inner black triangle-diamond shape formed of single, unattached imbrication. Additional black stitches at the edges. The basket (part a) front and back have two detached tri-colour figures, a diamond shape above an outward curling v shape, with vertical tri-colour bands on each side. The sides have two tri-colour chevron figures on each side. The basket (part a) has two handles, one of which is attached and the other of which is detached (part b).

Culture
Coast Salish
Material
cat-tail grass ?, cherry bark, dye and cedar root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Storage BasketA6950 a-b

Round coiled cedar root basket (part a) with lid (part b). Parallel slat base construction with indented slat flange on the basket body and the slat foot. Basket (part a) has overcast handles (one missing). Decorated with imbrication and beading in cherry bark and white grass. Design consists of rows of large and widely spaced modified diamond figures. Lid (part b) has watch-spring construction with a three point star design.

Culture
Coast Salish
Material
cedar root, wood, grass, cherry bark and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Storage BasketA3128

Coiled tan cedar root basket (part a) with a lid (part b). The sides of the basket (part a) have partial imbrication of discrete and connected figures. Upper row is of diamonds with two lower rows of zigzags, all of which is done half in red and the other half in black and white checkers. Foot is beaded in red. Upper edge is beaded in red. Small black and white rhomboid figures around the rim. Interlocking coiled work bifurcated stitches. Parallel slat and base construction. The lid (part b) is decorated with partial beading that consist of five or more staggered columns of small clusters of six black stitches. The edge is beaded in red cherry bark. Lid has flange and fits into the top of the basket approx. 2" in from the outer edge. Slat foot.

Culture
Interior Salish
Material
cherry bark, dye, canary grass and cedar root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketK2.289 a-b

A basket (part b) and a lid (part a). The basket has four panels alternating between a thin diamond-shaped design in red, peach, and purple on a natural background and a thin dimaond-shaped design in purple and natural on a red background. The rows above have a purple checkered pattern and natural diamond-shaped pattern on red and purple background. The lid has rows in similar designs to that of the rows above on the basket.

Culture
Central African ?
Material
palm leaf
Made in
Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2351

Basket of plain coiled work (bifurcated stitches) with elongated watch-spring base construction. Decorated with partial imbrication and beading. Vertical striped design of shapes in red/white/red and black/white/black (colours are similar horizontally). There are five vertical stripes per side, and three per end. Colour: tan.

Culture
Interior Salish ?
Material
dye, cedar root, cherry bark and cat-tail grass ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceK4.100 a-d

Set of four necklaces made of coiled copper wire. Part a is roughly twice as long as the others, part b overlaps at the ends, and the gap between the ends of part c is larger than the gap of part d.

Culture
Maasai ?
Material
copper metal
Made in
Tanzania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketD1.246 a-b

Large cylindrical basket (part a) that flares upward and outward and that has a lid (part b). The basket (part a) has partial imbrication in a continuous figure of a large cross in red (exterior) lined with bullrush extending almost to the entire height of the basket with beading in black on the foot and in bullrush around the rim. Simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches). Watch-spring base construction. Slat foot and indented flange. Beaded twine handle at either side with imbrication and beading. The lid (part b) has darker squares interspersed throughout.

Culture
Interior Salish: Nlaka'pamux
Material
cedar root, cat-tail grass ?, cherry bark and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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