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Cooking BasketNb650

Round, twined bowl with an overlaid design band below the rim. Design consists of repeating light yellow-brown bear grass triangles pointed up at the top and pointed down at the bottom with two twill twined rows between of alternating two elements of light yellow-brown bear grass.

Culture
Hupa
Material
bear grass and root
Made in
California, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HatNb11.277

Dome-shaped basketry hat with small checker work plaited square at top, where warps are visible. This area is outlined with twining and then the warps are split into smaller pieces and double strand twining resumes, but as much finer work. There is a row of triple strand twining, after several rows, and then the warps are split again and two strand twining continues. The bottom rim is finished with a row of triple strand twining followed by four rows of double strand twining, and then another row of triple strand twining. There is a fitted hatband inside hat with a black shoelace sewn to it.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
cedar bark and cotton fibre
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HatNb11.276

Dome-shaped basketry hat with small checker work plaited square at top, where warps are visible. This area is outlined with twining and then the warps are split into smaller pieces and double strand twining resumes, but as much finer work. There is a row of triple strand twining, after several rows, and then the warps are split again and two strand twining continues. The bottom rim is finished with a row of triple strand twining followed by four rows of double strand twining, and then another row of triple strand twining. There is a fitted hatband inside hat with a cotton string sewn through it.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
cedar bark and cotton fibre
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cooking BasketNb649

Round, twined bowl with a slightly flattened bottom. Two rows of twill twining (?) where the basket flattens. Overlaid light yellow-brown bear grass design with sets of stacked triangles above and below five rows of bear grass, the second and fourth of which are raised.

Culture
Karuk
Material
root and bear grass
Made in
California, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Food BowlNb648

Round, twined bowl with a rounded bottom. Linear, horizontal design bands of overlaid bear grass around the top. Two rows of parallelograms with repeated sets of three vertical lines between. Two raised overlaid horizontal rows are between these bands.

Culture
Karuk
Material
root and bear grass
Made in
California, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNb22.83 a-b

Small, twined, cylindrical basket (a) with knobbed lid (b). Flat bottom is twined at centre then alternates plaited and twined rows with 3 twined rows to edge. Straight sides are twined with 2 bands of design. The design is of diagonal black lines alternating with light brown ground and evenly spaced chevrons. The top row chevrons point right, the bottom point left. Lid is twined lid has short straight sides then slants up to knob. Bright green grass overlay row at top edge of knob. Imbedded dirt on lid, outside has darkened.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
spruce root, grass and dye
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNb22.82

Cup-shaped basket with slightly flaring sides. Bottom has 10 rows of twining to start and the remainder alternates twining and plaiting. Sides are twined with raised parallel vertical rows of twill twined zigzags. Evenly spaced, overlaid (false embroidered) diamond shapes in 2 horizontal rows. Rim is twill twined with vertical warps exposed at top.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
spruce root and grass
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Whaler's HatNb11.336

Conical hat (no liner) with knob at crown; wrapped twine cedar warp over 3-corner grass horizontal weft; inner weft of swamp grass. Purple-black dyed cedar decoration with three rows of checkerboard at bottom (rows 3-5). On main brim of hat are two horizontal bands with a whaler, holding a harpoon, standing in a canoe with a whale to the right. Above each canoe is a line with three diagonal spurs along top of line and at widest point of knob are three checkerboard rows. Twining varies in element size with wider elements in four rows around centre, at brim, below meander and on knob. Inside is cedar slat head band with evenly spaced, wide, vertical grass supports worked into the basketry at top of band and ending in two rows of twine at bottom.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
grass, cedar root, cedar bark and dye
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BagH2.1

Cylindrical, light beige-coloured woven basket with a flat bottom and straight sides--geometric patterning in pink, red, purple, yellow, orange and blue encircles the sides.

Culture
Andes
Material
hemp fibre ?, sisal fibre ?, nettle fibre ? and dye
Made in
Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bee MaskNb3.1363

Bee mask. Slightly rounded white forehead has a black and yellow horizontal curvilinear design, red ovoid at centre of yellow; raised thick curved black brows; thin yellow line joins orbital areas at dip between forehead and large protruding bulbous snout; yellow round hollow protruding eyes with black and white bands around pupil; snout has black triangular shape at top and bottom joined by a narrow band, black outline; cluster of five holes, top hole on right has remains of 'stinger'; white, yellow and red crescentic designs around circular white hollow nostrils; white temple; defining line for cheeks melds with orbital ridge; curvilinear black line on cheek; square-like white line defines black split U on either side of mouth area; white and yellow bands around small pointed protruding red lip band, painted design converges at lower lip point; yellow triangle on upturned chin is outlined in white. Cut cedar bark, tied with white cord, folded around a folded orange-pink cloth and nailed to upper rim; white cord and red cloth are twined into the cedar bark lengths; at side on right folded white cloth, stitched with yellow thread, is nailed at temples; brown cord twined into first 7cm. of bark. On reverse, one brown cord passes through two holes in upper rim, looped and knotted through hole at each temple; second cord is looped and knotted through chin.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
fibre, paint, cedar bark and yellow cedar wood
Made in
Blunden Harbour, British Columbia, Canada ? or Ba'as, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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