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Basket With Cover, CoverE/2255 B
Basket3207/7

Burden basket. Rectangular with three separated rows of animal designs covering all four sides. The figures are reddish-brown bark, with a lighter (yellowish) grass as background. The upper outside edge is reinforced with a rectangular loop of thick metal (telegraph) wire, held on with hide and fibre loops. The inside base is reinforced with a rectangular loop of root, bent at three corners.

Culture
Tsilhqot'in
Material
spruce root, water birch bark, reed grass, metal, rawhide skin and cotton fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3201/12

Small woven basket. Basket flares widely from a small round base toward lip. Construction is grass fibre woven around sedge root into a tube, thin at bottom centre, thickening as it winds up to rim. Red-brown dyed grass is used to create an irregular pattern of lines and triangles extending from base to top in shades of brown and red brown. This is visible on both interior and exterior of basket.

Culture
Batswana
Material
grass, sedge root and dye
Made in
Botswana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3201/11

Woven basket. Basket flares widely from a small round base toward lip. Construction is grass fibre woven around sedge root into a tube, narrow at bottom centre, thickening as it winds up to rim. Brown dyed grass is used to create open diamond shaped patterns extending from rim to base, with a smaller, closed diamond in a light brown inside. This is visible on both interior and exterior of basket.

Culture
Batswana
Material
grass, sedge root and dye
Made in
Botswana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3201/10

Woven basket. Basket flares widely from a small round base toward lip. Construction is grass fibre woven around sedge root into a tube, narrow at bottom centre, thickening as it winds up to rim. Red-brown dyed grass is used to create a seven-petal flower at bottom centre, with corresponding colour blocks extending down from rim. This is visible on both interior and exterior of basket.

Culture
Batswana
Material
grass, sedge root and dye
Made in
Botswana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3201/9

Woven basket. Basket flares widely from a small round base toward lip. Construction is grass fibre woven around sedge root into a tube, narrow at bottom centre, thickening as it winds up to rim. Brown dyed grass is used to create a diagonal checkered pattern across the inside and exterior of the basket. Rim is fully brown.

Culture
Batswana
Material
grass, sedge root and dye
Made in
Botswana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3201/8

Woven basket for winnowing grain. Basket is low and shallow, flaring widely from a small base toward lip. Construction is grass fibre woven around sedge root into thick tubes, winding up from bottom centre to rim. Brown dyed grass is used to create a pattern of triangles across the inside and exterior of the basket. Offset concentric circles of brown decorate the base.

Culture
Batswana
Material
grass, dye and sedge root
Made in
Okavango Swamps, Botswana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Flute3187/1

Bamboo flute. A thick, hollow cylinder of bamboo is sealed at one end by a natural node, with a large hole bored through the stalk beneath it. The opposite end is open. The entire cylinder of bamboo has been scratched with small, fine zigzagging lines in a variety of patterns, from squares, to triangles, to long sets of opposing diagonals. The designs are coloured a light brown. Interior is undecorated.

Culture
Western Melanesia
Material
bamboo grass
Made in
Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Comb3092/11

A flat comb with 15 prongs, made from light brown sticks that are thinned at the top end, and tightly held together by a cross-bar weave. The comb is triangular in shape. The upper end is covered with a black substance and inlaid with mother-of-pearl triangles, the lower part constitutes the prongs. The comb is attached to a long thin handle, which has a small piece of twine attached to it.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
wood, mother of pearl shell and reed grass ?
Made in
Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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