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Basket LidA2395

Circular wrapped twined lid with a central button handle. Central knob of mauve/black/yellow/pink/yellow/black; four "swastika" shapes in black; band of purple/yellow/pink/yellow/purple on sides.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth ?
Material
cedar bark, aniline dye and swamp grass
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA490

Basket woven with two strand twined weaving. Top border done in twine weave alternated with twisted weave (three weft strands). Three darker bands resulting from two-strand twined weave with one of the weft strands of dyed spruce root and one of natural spruce root.

Culture
Haida ? or Kwakwaka'wakw ?
Material
dye and spruce root
Made in
Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA491

Basket woven with two strand twined weaving with mixed twined weaving (diagonal twilled design) along top of basket. Four bands of darker faded black dyed spruce. Top edge is missing several large sections.

Culture
Haida ? or Kwakwaka'wakw ?
Material
spruce root and dye
Made in
Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA492

Basket woven with two strand twined weaving with alternate twined and twisted rows near the top and more complex top border. Six evenly-spaced darker black dye bands woven in. Top rim has several sections of missing material.

Culture
Haida ? or Kwakwaka'wakw ?
Material
spruce root and dye
Made in
Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2333

Plain twined work with turned in border. Design in false embroidery. "Floral" pattern in natural swamp grass and brown (dyed) cedar bark.

Culture
Northwest Coast ?
Material
cedar bark, swamp grass and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA1858 a-b

Oval-shaped basket (a) with a flat bottom, straight sides, and a fitted lid (b). Imagery of whales, whaling canoes, and birds on sides and lid in purple, orange, red green and yellow; bands of colour trim the edges. Sides: wrapped twining. Base and warp: checker work and twined weaving. Swamp grass overlay.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Ditidaht
Material
swamp grass, aniline dye and cedar bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA1116

A short cylindrical brown basket with wrapped twined openwork weaving of small vertical rectangles with wider strips (undyed) of wicker woven in as decoration, creating two horizontal double bands, one around near the top and one around near the bottom.

Culture
Heiltsuk
Material
cedar root and spruce root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA1118

Basket with wrapped twined work (with direction of weave reversing with each row). Base is plaited with double strands and has four corners that extend up to rounded edges that flare outwards slightly towards the rim. The rim is overcast, and the two handles each consist of two twisted strands of cedar bark.

Culture
Heiltsuk
Material
cedar root and cedar bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA1121

A cylindrical basket with alternate twined and wicker weaving. Repeating pattern of three vertical bands of natural cedar, two red and one purple-black.

Culture
Heiltsuk
Material
dye and cedar bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA1122

A brown basket mainly plaited with rows of twisted twined work bordering horizontal strips of twilling. Rim is braided. Central horizontal band bordered by dyed (brown) cedar root twined work, band has cedar bark warp with cedar root and dyed cedar root (brown) twilled pattern. Upper and lower bands are the same technique but cedar root is plain and pink design appears on both interior and exterior of the basket.

Culture
Heiltsuk
Material
dye, cedar root and cedar bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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