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BasketA8992

Open spruce root basket; fine twined work; braided border; embroidered design. Two ribbons of pattern in yellow on black ground bordered by red; in the centre is a stepped design in squares of yellow/green/yellow on a red ground bordered by black.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
dye, swamp grass and spruce root
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA8991

Twined spruce root basket; base is mixed twined work (plain twining alternation with plain twining). Sides are plain twined; design is false and true embroidered. Two double rows of diagonal twined work near base in natural and dark brown. Main ribbon of design has the "tattoo" pattern (Emmons, Desing 35) (a sideways "h") in dark brown, and a stepped design in yellow/brown/yellow. Bordered by yellow bands, and all on brown bands. Dark brown rim.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
spruce root, grass and dye
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearK4.258

Elongated cylindrical shaped, undecorated spear with a slight taper at one end. Shaft only, no spear point.

Culture
Central African
Material
wood
Made in
Congo
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowK4.255

A thin cylindrical dark brown-black wood piece sharpened to a point. Small band woven around.

Culture
Central African
Material
rattan and wood
Made in
Congo
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Spear PointK4.254

Point that has a conical-shaped handle with a crisscross band around the top. Blade of point is round at one end and tapers at the tip. Has a central ridge. Handle is hollow and has bits of material inside.

Culture
Central African
Material
steel metal
Made in
Congo
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearK4.253

Spear with forged head, the sides of the curved, and cylindrical handle. The handle is wrapped with a strip of copper where the head fits into the handle, and below the metal is a band of hide (?). The butt end of the handle is wrapped with a thick strip of steel.

Culture
Central African
Material
copper metal, wood, metal, steel metal and skin ?
Made in
Congo
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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WhiskK4.252

Hemp leaves have been beaten to obtain the long hemp fibres which are attached to a long cylindrical dark brown wood handle.

Culture
Central African
Material
wood and hemp fibre
Made in
Congo
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Axe HandleK4.251

Long dark brown handle that widens at one end, and tapers to round edge at the other end. Wider end has incised bands and circles. There is a hole near the centre of the handle. Rectangular hole at widen end, possibly for a blade.

Culture
Central African
Material
wood
Made in
Congo
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketryA8860

Swamp grass covered glass jar. Plain bands of colour top and bottom with two interior bands of green twined with red. Inside this are a row of purple birds along the top, a row of purple whales in the centre, and a row of alternating two-man canoes (one of which has line to whale) and ducks along the bottom.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
glass, swamp grass, aniline dye and cedar bark
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Burden BasketA8827

Burden basket made of coiled cedar root woven together with cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?). Simple coiled work with bifurcated stitches and an elongated watch-spring base construction. The upper half is decorated with a meander motif in black bark on white grass, two on each side or end. The lower half has a "cluster of flies" pattern (checkerboard strips) in black cherry bark. Two rawhide loops on one of the wider sides.

Culture
Coast Salish: Squamish
Material
cedar root, cat-tail grass ?, dye, cherry bark and rawhide skin
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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