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Basket2899/1 a-b

Large rectangular lidded basket with handles and a tight weave. The basket body is deep with a wide mouth, narrowing to a smaller base, with imbricated diamond, triangle and arrow shaped patterns in colours of tan, dark brown and red-brown decorating all sides. The lid (part b) is flat and has a low profile. It is decorated with imbrication similar to that on the body. The basket has two half circle handles attached at the shorter sides, just under the rim (one reattached in 2019).

Culture
Coast Salish
Material
cedar wood, cedar root, cherry bark and cat-tail grass ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3345/2

Round, woven basket with cowhide(?) covering the base. Basket is golden brown. Reddish-brown cowhide attached to basket with strand of dark brown, braided plant fibre. Braid ends on right side of basket in looped knot.

Culture
Samburu
Material
plant fibre and cow skin ?
Made in
Kenya
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3369/2 a-b

Round basket (part a) with lid (part b). The basket sides are decorated with a canoe and sea creature. There are three figures in the canoe, one of them holding a spear. The basket sides bulge at centre, tapering slightly to the rim, reinforced by a band of cedar bark. The basket also tapers slightly towards the base. The centre of the base has a simple square weave of cedar bark. The lid is decorated with a six-point star, faded to red and olive green, which incorporates the knob at centre. The imbricated designs have faded on the exterior basket sides and lid.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
cedar root ?, dye and cedar bark ?
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3355/1 a-b

Small cylindrical basket (part a) with a flat fitted lid (part b). The basket itself is a natural grass colour. Around the base of the basket and rim of the lid is a taupe/bright orange/taupe band, which also forms a circle in the centre of the lid. At mid-point, basket has two rows of offset faded taupe rhomboid/diamond patterns. Midpoint on the lid is a row of faded orange rhomboid/diamond designs.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
swamp grass, cedar bark and dye
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3355/2 a-b

Small cylindrical basket (part a) with a fitted lid (part b). Near the base of the basket and around rim of the lid is a band of taupe, natural and bright orange in sections of three. Both the bottom edge and lid edge are marked with black and natural repeating. At mid-point, basket has one green and one dark purple reptile-like creature with grey and orange diamond pattern between. Midpoint on the lid decorated with alternating faded orange and black diamond designs, around the small raised section at centre. Heavily faded. The basket itself is a natural grass colour.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
swamp grass, cedar bark and dye
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketB138 a-b

Black against tan geometric woven patterned basket (part a) of a square shape with lid (part b). Both the basket and the lid have a pattern that consists of a main horizontal black band that has tan squares within that have black centres with black bands above and below.

Culture
Philippines
Material
rattan and leaf
Made in
Philippines
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketB71 a-c

Cylindrical, twilled basket (part a) woven in a diagonal pattern with folded strips of grass. Has a string tied twice around the outside near top. Wadded up dark brown-green and black cloth (part b) is inside at the bottom. There is also a coil (part c) of plant fibre, possibly rattan?

Culture
Bidayuh
Material
grass, rattan and cotton fibre
Made in
Sarawak, Malaysia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket and lidE423982-0

Originally thought to have been made by people from the Klamath River region (Hupa, Yurok, or Karok) of northern California, later identified (by Margaret S Mathewson from Oregon State) as from the Siletz Reservation in coastal Oregon and from the turn of the century or late 1880s.Large, barrel-shaped basket with lid, probably a storage basket. Diagonal or 3-strand twined base with single-twined body. Two horizontal bands of white grass overlay with black triangles of maidenhair fern stem. Row of openwork just below rim, where pairs of warp elements have been crossed to form decorative x's. Two rows of single twining at the rim. The lid is bowl shaped, with one horizontal band of overlay matching that of the basket.The Confederated Tribes of Siletz include Clatsop, Chinook, Klickitat, Molala, Kalapuya, Tillamook, Alsea, Siuslaw/Lower Umpqua, Coos, Coquelle, Upper Umpqua, Tututni, Chetco, Tolowa, Takelma, Galice/Applegate, and Shasta.

Culture
Siletz ?
Made in
Oregon, USA ? or California, USA ?
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Basket3336/1

Basket made of woven spruce root with two repeating imbricated designs around the exterior - three stepped horizontal lines near the top, and larger spiral designs. The basket is cylindrical in shape, with the base raised slightly (convex) at the centre.

Culture
Haida
Material
spruce root and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3320/1 a-b

Large circular basket (part a) with lid (part b). Both are made from a coil weave. Imbricated diamond designs on the lid, and an imbricated diagonal or stepped design around the side. The lid is round with a deep lip, which fits on the raised lip of the basket. The basket has two woven handles extending up from the rim on either side.

Culture
Coast Salish: Sto:lo
Material
dye, cherry bark, cedar wood and cedar bark
Made in
Sardis, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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