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HeaddressA7297

Leather headband with seventeen bear claws attached to it at evenly spaced intervals. Tips of claws are held upright by string tied to each and wrapped with very thin layers of ermine (?) skin.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
bear claw, ermine skin ? and leather skin
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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PurseA3432 a-b

Woven purse (part a) that has wrapped twined weaving with a border of plain twined weaving at the top. Both sides have a design that consists of two whales facing each other (in blue with several colours) and a purple eagle with an arrow in its claws while its wings are outspread. Colours include magenta, orange, yellow, and green. Has a zipper. There is also a double-sided rectangular mirror (part b).

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
swamp grass, metal, glass, aniline dye and synthetic fibre
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Head RingA8375

Dancer's headband. Series of three coiled red cedar bark rings sewn one on top of the other. Seam between filled on the outside with a roll of twisted bleached cedar bark. Soft cloth band with sections of pink and sections of white stripes sewn around the inside of the ring. Extra strips of bark sewn to outside of the ring.

Culture
Nuxalk
Material
cedar bark and fibre
Made in
Bella Coola, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Neck RingA7961 d

Neck ring composed of eagle wing and feathers bound to a cedar bark ring. A bow made from gold-coloured cloth with three beads is sewn onto the eagle's wing.

Culture
Gitxsan
Material
glass, fibre, feather, eagle wing, cedar bark and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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OrnamentA7961 r

Ornament consisting of a piece of elastic joining two ends of the ermine to form a wristlet.

Culture
Gitxsan
Material
ermine skin, fibre and rubber ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BagA7961 w

Bag made of moose skin with a beaded and embroidered x-design in pink thread on a black band of fabric below a band of orange-brown fabric at the mouth. The reverse is without the black band, beading and embroidery. There is a skin fringe on the sides and bottom with a loop at the top for a button.

Culture
Gitxsan
Material
moose skin, fibre, metal and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Printing BlockC6

Rectangular tapa board, or print block, for creating siapo (tapa cloth). Rectangular, dark brown wooden board covered in geometric patterns. The designs include squares of parallel lines and crescents in a grid formation. The patterns are made from twigs sewn onto bark, then covered with black resin?

Culture
Samoan
Material
fibre, bark, wood and resin ?
Made in
Savai'i, Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bentwood BoxA17072

Bentwood box in an unusual shape, with two square-shaped pieces connected by a narrow passage in the centre. The corners were bent, with the last corner, and base, pegged and sewn with cedar withe. Faded face painted at one end.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
red cedar wood and paint
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2.615

Brown birch bark basket with an oval-shaped top and a rectangular bottom. Bark is bent and laced into place, with birch twine around the rim overcast with thin strips of root; decorative bands of beading are featured along the rim in four spots. Geometric and linear patterns are scratched onto the exterior sides, revealing a lighter shade of bark.

Culture
Dakelhne: Nat'ooten: Babine
Material
bark, birch bark, birch root and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2.617

Brown birch bark basket with an oval-shaped top and a rectangular bottom. Bark is bent and laced into place with birch twine around the rim overcast with birch root and partially beaded with crabapple bark. Geometric and linear patterns are scratched onto the exterior sides, revealing a lighter shade of bark.

Culture
Dakelhne: Nat'ooten: Babine
Material
birch bark, birch root, crabapple bark and stain ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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