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Sealskin mat with ookpik design. Round fur mat is divided into 8 pie-shaped sections in alternating dark brown and light brown fur. Each triangle has an ookpik shape sewn into it in the opposite colour fur (4 light brown sewn into dark brown, 4 dark brown birds in light brown fur). Each ookpik has felt eyes of black and yellow circles, a beige felt triangular nose, and 3-toed felt feet attached. There is a small sinew loop at the top for hanging.
Provenience note: many objects in the Chirouse collection were catalogued as Duwamish, however that really only seems to definitively apply to Catalogue No. 130965. Accession record indicates that the collection is the "handiwork of the Snohomish, Swinomish, Lummi, Muckleshoot and Etakmur Indians on the Tulalip Reservation in Washington Territory".Old cloth label with artifact also references mat needle # E130971.
Large round woven basket or mat. Base is flat, with edge lifting slightly. Weaving incorporates dyed grass to create a brown circle at centre with short green lines emanating outward from it on an angle. Around body of mat are four standing camels, each with coloured dots outlining the torso. Around rim are lines of green and brown. Pattering can be seen in more vivid colours on underside of mat.
Large round woven basket or mat. Base is flat, with edge lifting slightly. Weaving incorporates dyed grass to create thick circles at centre in green, brown and black, diamond shaped patterns in four groups of two, interspersed with sets of dotted lines along the body of the mat, and encircling lines of green and brown at the rim. The circular patterning is seen on the underside of the mat, but not the diamond or dot patterns.
Soft, finely woven mat with a short fringe on three sides, and long fringe on the other. One side of the mat is fuzzy. (Small piece of tape with collector number adhered to one side of weaving.)