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Thunderbird Rattle3113/3 a-b

Carved wooden rattle with stand (part b). Rattle has a round head, relatively flat, with strips of cedar looped around the outer edge. The front is decorated in a blue painted thunderbird motif with white accents, while the back is painted with a black thunderbird. The handle of the rattle is tightly wrapped with a braided cedar rope. The stand (part b) is cone shaped, with a hole at centre top into which the rattle's handle fits in order to hold it upright. The stand is undecorated except for black paint in and around the hole and base.

Culture
Coast Salish: Stz'uminus
Material
yellow cedar wood, cedar root and paint
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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White Heart3113/2 a-d

Tall glass sculpture with three cedar mount parts. A tall glass cylinder (part a), rounded at top and bottom, is the central piece in the sculpture, representing a trade bead. Its under-layer is frosted white, covered by a red frosted cut-out layer in swooping patterns and dots. It sits on a low, round cedar base (part b), carved along the edge, with a mat of woven cedar bark at centre. A hole in the middle supports a wood pole (part d) that extends throught the glass cylinder and is capped at top by small wooden lid (part c), carved similarly to the base.

Culture
Coast Salish: Stz'uminus
Material
glass, yellow cedar wood, cedar bark and paint
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Salmon Homecoming3113/23

Silkscreen print on paper. Image shows four salmon, representing the four year lifecycle of the fish. They are arranged in a pinwheel pattern, heads to the centre of the picture, bodies curving toward edges, and are coloured red-pink, green and yellow, with large round eyes and slightly beaked snouts. The three females have cirlcular salmon egg motifs contained within their stomachs, while the male has a repeating crescent pattern representing gills. The fish swim on a green and blue background.

Culture
Coast Salish: Musqueam
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Time3113/22

Silkscreen print on paper. Round image shows six groups of two black and white eyes embedded in fields of green or light yellow, separated by green dots. Curving lines join the eyes and create a repeating pattern around a 12 line sunburst motif at centre.

Culture
Coast Salish: Musqueam
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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The Inlet3113/21

Silkscreen print on paper. Image shows two vertical rows of stylized fish in shades of grey and light brown facing away from centre, on a yellow background. Picture is edged in red-brown and black, with a grey-green outer border.

Culture
Coast Salish: Musqueam
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Canoe Pass3113/20

Silkscreen print on paper. Image shows a school of fish (salmon ?) in shades of green and brown swimming upstream through waves of grey, yellow and dark green. The waves take the shape of a large heron spanning the length of the image. The background is light grey.

Culture
Coast Salish: Musqueam
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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North Arm3113/19

Silkscreen print on paper. Image shows a school of salmon in shades of red, orange and brown swimming upstream through waves and eddies of grey and yellow, which in the centre of the print form a large heron. The background is light grey.

Culture
Coast Salish: Musqueam
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Connections: Yelapa I3113/18

Silkscreen print on paper. The image shows a monochromatic sketch of leaves under a grid. A few of the leaves on the left are unfilled outlines, while the rest contain birds, crabs, lizards, or insects. The background is black and lightly-shaded grey. Hand-written letters along the bottom (E to H) identify part of the grid's vertical plain.

Culture
Coast Salish: Musqueam
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Connections: Yelapa II3113/17

Silkscreen print on paper. The image shows a monochromatic sketch of leaves under a grid. Several of the leaves are unfilled outlines, while some contain birds, veins, fish, crabs, or seahorses. The sketching is more fully realized along the bottom, with several areas of full colour-block. A line of hand-written letters along the bottom (A to E) identifies the vertical plain of the grid.

Culture
Coast Salish: Musqueam
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Connections: Yelapa III3113/16

Silkscreen print on paper. The image shows a monochromatic sketch of leaves under a grid. Most of the leaves are outlines, with a few containing veins or sea horses. The drawing is on a light yellow background.

Culture
Coast Salish: Musqueam
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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