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Necklace1590/290 a-b

A necklace of 165 beads, 163 with red and white centre, and a blue and a white glass bead. Hanging from the blue bead is a cross of four graduated horizontal bars with cloverleaf terminals. There are 4 hollow silver owls with moulded features each side of the cross. 1590/290B is a loose owl. Each owl and the cross bear maker’s mark.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands
Material
silver alloy metal, glass and fibre
Made in
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Brooch1590/195 a-b

Circular brooch with central circular cutout and cross-pin. Border of three close-set rows of cutouts, ovals, crosses and circles, 24 of each. Engraving around central hole. Maker’s mark in square cartouche.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands
Material
silver alloy metal
Made in
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Brooch1590/227

A four-sided scooped edge brooch with cross-pin. The flat edges are scalloped and have engraved circles.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands
Material
silver alloy metal
Made in
Canada ? or USA ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fragment: PipeD3.48

Mottled black and grey, straight, tube-like clay pipe fragment--possibly the mouthpiece and part of the stem; broken at one end.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands ?
Material
clay
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketD3.5 a-b

Circular birch bark basket with straight, vertical sides and a flat lid; exterior of basket and lid are entirely covered in multicoloured quillwork. The basket's sides are encircled by two bands--one straight, one slanted--of quills, while the lid features red and pink flowers.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands
Material
birch bark, porcupine quill, fibre and dye
Made in
Manitowaning, Ontario, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SaddleD3.170

Rawhide and tanned hide saddle with blue and red trim and pink lining under flaps. Floral beadwork pattern at each of the four corners in two sets. The first corner set consists of two light green leaves at the bottom, a pink heart-shape, a black stem with two red petals, two dark green leaves in the middle with a light green centre, two green leaves with a black centre, a pink heart-shape, a three-petaled light blue flower with dark blue centre and two black filaments on either side, and two three-heart-shaped-petaled flowers of orange shades with yellow and blue centres at either sides. The second corner set consists of a dark green leaf with an orange centre, a pink bud outlined with green, and two four-petaled flowers of red and orange with a yellow centre outlined with black at either sides, with an orange, yellow, and blue bud below each. Corresponding respectively are two more sets of floral patterned beadwork panels underneath each corner. The first panel set consists of a pink and red flower with an orange centre that has two curly light blue lines at the top corners, two dark blue petals outlined with blue below the left side of the flower, a black stem, and two green leaves with orange centres at either sides. The second panel set consists of three four-heart-shaped-petaled red flowers outlined with pink and having yellow centres, a red and orange flower, two red buds outlined with pink, and two green buds, all joined by a black stem. Each panel has a fabric strip at each side with a large black beaded and two blue and red wool tassels. Each fabric strip has a dark blue centre vertical line outlined with light blue and decoraged with yellow beads.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands
Material
skin, glass and wool fibre
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MatD3.44

Brown, oval-shaped birch bark mat with red and yellow quill decoration in the centre. Two bands of sweet grass coils with a single band of zigzagging open work between them--all sewn with black thread--encircle the central birch panel.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands ?
Material
sweet grass, birch bark, cotton fibre and porcupine quill
Made in
Manitoba, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket648/1

Bag-like basket with triangular flap top lid. Weave is of wide strips of bark; some visible squares of weave have coloured fabric squares sewn to them; two strips of felt - one red, one blue - are included in the weave that runs parallel to the diagonal edges of the top of the bag and the flap; a knotted rope is attached to the centre of the tip of the flap and wraps around a flat stick with rounded ends as a closure method.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands ?
Material
birch bark, wool fibre ?, dye and fibre
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Brooch1590/173

Circular brooch with scalloped edge and central ovular cutout. Row of alternating square and circular cutouts. Engraved pattern of zigzag lines forming a floral shape with outward-pointing arrows between petal shapes. Additional arrows point towards central cutout. Cross-pin secured through the hole. High polish.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands
Material
silver alloy metal
Made in
Canada ? or USA ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Brooch1590/171

Circular ear wheel with 9 cutout hearts separated by 18 small circular cutouts, all surrounding a central circular cutout. Pin is missing.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands
Material
silver alloy metal
Made in
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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