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BasketryA3111 a-b

Basket covered bottle with lid. Three large openwork bands with green and purple compound band on top and bottom of lower half of bottle, and three green swastika designs bordered by narrow bands in central band of bottle. Plain twined weave with unusual crossed-warp twined openwork weave with half of the warp strands being vertical, and the other half being diagonal.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
aniline dye, swamp grass and glass
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketryA3112

Tall glass bottle covered with a woven sleeve (part a) and bottle cap (part b); bottle cap also has a woven covering. Five bands with two or more colours each with oblique vertical pattern, one of which is a floral pattern. Wrapped twined weave with plain twined weave (over wide warp) base and plain twined weave cap.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
swamp grass, aniline dye, cedar bark and glass
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketryA3113

Corked brown glass bottle with sloping shoulders covered with a woven sleeve; three solid bands of purple with four patterned bands.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
aniline dye, swamp grass, glass and cork bark
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA3190

4 horizontal bands each 5 rows wide - alternating solid bands that have bands with every other warp strand brown. Wide twilled border with diagonally striped design. Base is mixed twined work; sides are plain twined with a twilled border.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
spruce root and dye
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA5112

Wrapped twined weaving with direction of stitch changing with each row; 2 weft strands are woven in between each twined row (plaited - over 2, under 2). Dyed warp and weft strands - vertical rows (7 rows wide) (3 per side, 2 per end) crossing 2 horizontal rows (5 rows wide) near top and bottom of basket.

Culture
Coast Salish ?
Material
dye and cedar root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA5119

Plain twined weaving with overlaid twined weaving (false embroidery). Two bands of divided diamonds and split diamonds alternated with horizontal crossed line patterns with band of striped pattern in between.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
swamp grass and spruce root
Made in
Hoonah, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA5120 a-b

Base is mixed twined work (alternating plain twined and wicker weaves); sides and lid are plain twined with embroidered (false) design. Variation on "half of the head of the salmon berry" (Emmons, design 2). Triangles placed in eschelon ("the spear barb"), and alternating in lines of light brown and dark brown on a light ground. Lid has a circular design of black and white triangles bordered by lines of white. "whirl-wind design" on center. With rattle lid.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
spruce root, dye and grass
Made in
Sitka, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA5121

Dark brown rectangular basket with tall sides and an open, oval-shaped upper rim. Four encircling bands of three-row stripes in combinations of natural, red, and blue.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
cedar bark, cherry bark and dye
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TrapIa33

Natural colour, cylindrical basket which narrows from one end to an indented neck at the other. A piece of coconut shell is fastened across the top of narrowest end with plant fibre and a piece of indigo coloured thread of twined plant fibre is attached near the open end. Inside there are two round sets of prongs which point back towards the coconut shell. The smallest circle occurs midway, while the other occurs one third of the way from the open end.

Culture
Ifugao
Material
fibre, coconut nutshell, bamboo grass ? and palm leaf ?
Made in
Mountain, Philippines
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TrapIa30

Bottle-like woven trap with inverted lid attached. Walls bulge out from oval base and compress into flat oval shoulder. Twined, circular neck flares slightly outwards. Inverted cone lid attached with one strand. Alternating sections of medium flat woven weft and narrow rounded twined weft. Natural light brown colour. Loose weaving to allow water in.

Culture
Tagalog
Material
bamboo grass ?
Made in
Quezon, Philippines
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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