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Box, Tobacco Or SnuffE/1864
Container1060/6 a-b

An oval box (part a) and lid (part b) covered in geometric quillwork. On top of the lid there is a black diamond-shaped pattern outlined with blue. The central diamond has orange vertical and horizontal lines in the centre. The outer partial diamonds have white diagonal lines in a feather-shape. The background is white with orange triangles and blue lines. Around the sides of the lid is an alternating pattern of white diamond-vertical line-dot-vertical line-diamond. Along the sides of the container are zigzag lines starting with white and orange at the top all the way down to blue, black, white, red, and blue and orange on the bottom.

Culture
Mi'kmaq ?
Material
birch bark, dye, wood and porcupine quill
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket657/1

Solid basket with square base and round rim; made from one piece of bark that has been cut and bent in to make the corners; stitching is in bark. Rim is of wood and is twined with bark strands. Exterior is decorated with darker triangles with notches in the tips that point down from rim.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands
Material
birch bark, skin and wood
Made in
Ontario, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Box935/2 a-b

Circular birch bark box with fitted lid covered with stitched porcupine quill designs. Sides of box feature orange, brown and white geometric and zigzagging patterns, while the lid is covered with a geometric design with four tree-like figures.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands ?
Material
birch bark, fibre, wood, dye and porcupine quill
Made in
Quebec, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNa1169

Oval birch bark basket that tapers to a square base. Basket is formed from one piece of birch bark and is stitched at both ends. Reinforced wood rim is lashed to body of basket with spruce root--small segments of spruce roots are dyed red. Sides are decorated with a scraped vegetal design of four plants, with crosshatching on one end and the base left undecorated.

Culture
Wet'suwet'en ?
Material
spruce root, wood, birch bark and dye
Made in
Burns Lake, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNa1167

Oval shaped birch bark container with tapered, almost square base; sides flare outwards. Rim reinforced with a bent twig lashed with spruce root. Stitched together at narrower sides with spruce root. Dark inner bark on the outside of the container has been scraped away in places to form a design of lighter colour. Design consists of two horizontal bands, each band consists of five scraped rows; two outer rows with triangular motif extending outwards, three inner rows straight and narrow. Note: bottom band on one side has only two inner rows. Rim has seven to eight wraps of green coloured spruce root at endpoints and two to three wraps of red coloured spruce root divided by two wraps of natural spruce root at midpoints.

Culture
Gitxsan ?
Material
dye, wood, spruce root and birch bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNa1166

Oval shaped birch bark basket at rim tapering to a square base. Decorative design covers entire exterior surface, except bottom. Design consists of a series of three horizontal repeated motifs of alternating dark brown waves and lines with light brown scraped waves and lines. The sewn side seams form an inverted "y" shape. Seams secured by spruce root stitches. Red and yellow fibre is woven through top of lashed rim--only traces remain.

Culture
Gitxsan ?
Material
wood, spruce root, birch bark, dye ? and fibre ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNa1165

Oval birch bark basket with square base. Body of basket is stitched together at the two ends with spruce root. Stitches seen on both interior and exterior. Decoration is scraped on side. Pattern consists of three stripes bordered by bands having triangles side by side pointing out. The pattern is repeated seven times around body of basket. Rim is of wood lashed to basket walls by spruce root. Four 7 cm sections of rim are decorated with red cedar bark (?) strands woven in plain checker. Between decorated sections, wood is covered with dark brown red cedar bark (?) lashed on with spruce root in "x" patterns; three sections have three "x"s each and the fourth section has four "x"s, two broken.

Culture
Gitxsan ?
Material
cedar bark ?, wood, spruce root, birch bark and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNa1164

Oval, birch bark basket with squared bottom. Body of basket stitched together at two points with spruce root. Decoration is scraped into bark. Rim reinforced with wood and lashed to body with spruce root, and four pieces of fabric. Two pieces are blue (4 cm and 4.4 cm long) and two are red (4 cm and 4.2 cm long). Fabric is secured by crossed pieces of spruce root on each end. Beneath lashing on rim are remains of pink and purple yarn (?). There are two bands of decoration, about two cm apart, scraped into bark of body. Each band consists of three thin lines. Top lines in both bands have triangles side by side, bases about 1.2 cm - 1.5 cm apart, pointing up. Bottom lines have triangles pointing down. Centre lines have no pattern on them.

Culture
Gitxsan ?
Material
birch bark, cellulose, wood and spruce root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNa1163

Basket with oval mouth that tapers to a square base. Spruce root (?) is used to stitch the bark together and to finish the rim by lashing a reinforcing strip of wood to the upper edge using a series of repeatedly increasing and decreasing lengths of stitch (up to 1 cm) to form a jagged pattern. A scraping technique is used to decorate the basket in horizontal bands of light and dark. Pattern consists of three dark horizontal bands at the top followed by a repetition of a wider band saw-toothed on both upper and lower edges and two narrow horizontal bands; this is repeated four times. The decoration does not quite match on both sides (on one side, the last two horizontal bands do not appear). The top of the rim has the remains of a red thread flanked on both sides by a green thread that was woven into the spruce stitching.

Culture
Gitxsan ?
Material
birch bark, wool fibre ?, wood and spruce root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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