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SkirtSe154

Skirt made of a tube of black cotton fabric with a geometric design in applique and embroidery featuring cross and key motifs in white applique strips, and green, orange, yellow, blue, and white embroidery. The design is reflected in mirror image around perpendicular bisector.

Culture
Shipibo
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SkirtSe134

Skirt of brown cotton with ends sewn together at the rear to form a tube. An applied blue strip flanked by two tan strips border the top edge and a strip of plain brown fabric forms the bottom border. A central pattern incorporating key patterns inside stepped geometric designs is embroidered on the front in light brown thread with orangey-brown wool (?) linear designs. The design is bordered at the top and sides with a repeated triangle design.

Culture
Shipibo
Material
cotton fibre, wool fibre ? and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SkirtSe133

Black rectangular piece of cloth sewn with vertical seam at side to form tube. Plain except for front panel, bordered by a wide white appliqued strip at top, and yellow embroidery on all other sides. Colourful geometric pattern within border in white appliqued fabric and embroidery, in white, yellow, pink, green, blue, red, and purple. Narrower white appliqued strip directly above embroidery.

Culture
Shipibo
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SkirtSe132

Rectangular piece of brown cloth with embroidered and appliqued geometric designs on front and painted black geometric design on the rest. Sewn with vertical seam at rear to form tube. Top has three applied bands of tan material, also used in border and design of front panel. Solid dark brown painted strip at bottom. Edges finished.

Culture
Shipibo
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SkirtSe128

Square of black cloth with seam at rear to form tube. Top edge has two white applique bands, with white and orange embroidery between. Bottom edge has two white applique strips. Large embroidered front panel bordered at sides by orange embroidery. Very large embroidered cross motif, outlined by white and orange embroidery, orange zig-zag, and white applique. Rear panel plain. Edges finished.

Culture
Shipibo
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SkirtSe127

Brown rectangular fabric sewn with a vertical seam at rear to make a tube. Embroidered on front half only with rectilinear, stepped zig-zag, and cross patterns in tan, red, and yellow. One edge finished (machine-sewn), the other unfinished with an internal black patch.

Culture
Shipibo
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNbz778 a-c

Rectangular basket (a) with rounded corners and a flat lid (b); lid is fitted flush to slightly flaring sides. Slat foundation of cedar joined together in split-stitched cedar root coiling. Sides decorated with imbrication resembling small rectangles which are placed in zigzag designs; there is a row each of red brown and black cherry bark flanking light yellow brown bark. Pattern horizontal on longest sides, vertical on ends. Other small design elements interspersed. Sturdy rim around base elevates basket. Imbricated and beaded upper basket edge in red brown cherry bark; lid with small loop handles, one at one end, the other, broken off (part c). Lid with beaded diamond patterns in red and black; faded. Base and top recessed rims are cracked and broken off.

Culture
Interior Salish: Stl'atl'imx
Material
cedar wood, cherry bark and cedar root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Storage BasketNbz777 a-b

Rectangular coiled cedar root basket (part a) with rounded corners and a lid (part b). Slat foundation used for both the lid and the base, but bundles of cedar roots were used for the sides. Lid (part b) fitted flush to slightly flared sides from which single handle is attached, one end to each long side. Handle is composed of bundles reinforced with cotton cord. Sides of the basket (part a) are decorated with imbricated panels of light yellow brown grass with alternating red brown and black dyed cherry bark in four "V" motifs. Panels are outlined in black, two each on longest sides and one on each end. Sturdy rim around base edge elevates basket. Beading in red and black cherry bark on the lid (part b) top and sides with grass at the lid's rim.

Culture
Coast Salish
Material
grass, cotton fibre, cedar root and cedar wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNa1076

Heart-shaped fibre bundle basket; sides created by bundled sweet grass coiled around in a continuous spiral and held together with a lashing of dark brown thread. Sides flare outward from a birch bark base decorated with a floral design of yellow and purple circles and crosses in quill work, much of which is missing. Coiling interrupted by openwork pattern formed by bundled grass stitched into one zigzag.

Culture
Ojibwa
Material
birch bark, dye, cotton fibre, sweet grass and porcupine quill
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bark ClothAj109

Wide sheet of thin, tan-coloured material made from bark. One side paler than the other. Many repairs made with sinew thread; also some patches. Edges unfinished (no fraying). Grain appears to be diagonal to the edges; often the grain direction is crossed perpendicularly.

Culture
Central African ?
Material
bark, sinew and dye
Made in
Kampala, Uganda
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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