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Basketry3369/1

Tall bottle covered with a woven basketry sleeve and cap. The bottom of the bottle is bulbous, with a thin tall neck. Weaving alternates between sections of loose and tight weaves. Tight weave is decorated with small birds in faded green and a large wolf(?), and a thunderbird with a snake in its talons.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
swamp grass, glass and dye
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3355/1 a-b

Small cylindrical basket (part a) with a flat fitted lid (part b). The basket itself is a natural grass colour. Around the base of the basket and rim of the lid is a taupe/bright orange/taupe band, which also forms a circle in the centre of the lid. At mid-point, basket has two rows of offset faded taupe rhomboid/diamond patterns. Midpoint on the lid is a row of faded orange rhomboid/diamond designs.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
swamp grass, cedar bark and dye
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3355/2 a-b

Small cylindrical basket (part a) with a fitted lid (part b). Near the base of the basket and around rim of the lid is a band of taupe, natural and bright orange in sections of three. Both the bottom edge and lid edge are marked with black and natural repeating. At mid-point, basket has one green and one dark purple reptile-like creature with grey and orange diamond pattern between. Midpoint on the lid decorated with alternating faded orange and black diamond designs, around the small raised section at centre. Heavily faded. The basket itself is a natural grass colour.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
swamp grass, cedar bark and dye
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Coast Salish Potlatch Dress3339/1

Tunic-style dress made of woven cedar bark, with full-length wool panel down the centre front. Wool woven around cedar bark in horizontal rows throughout dress. Cedar bark and dark brown wool fringe along bottom edge. Dark brown wool fringe down entire left and right sides of dress. Wool panel on front has white background with mirrored chevron pattern. Small teal diamond in middle of pattern with alternating light blue, dark blue, brown and teal V shapes, on either side of diamond, until top and bottom ends of panel. Inner V’s made up of coloured triangles. Outer three V’s are solid teal, light blue and dark blue. Top and bottom edges of panel are dark brown. White wool fringe along top and bottom edges of panel, top fringe hangs inside of dress. Interior lined with dark brown wool.

Culture
Coast Salish: Sto:lo and Suquamish
Material
wool fibre and cedar bark
Made in
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model Canoe3274/72 a-i

Model inter-island sailing canoe, with single-hull outrigger. Main hull is carved of a single piece of wood with attached forked end pieces at fore and aft. Hull is panted black with areas near top decoratively left unpainted. Several benches span the interior of the vessel. Detailed wood rigging with intricate, twisted cordage attaches main boat to outrigger float. A woven triangular sail is suspended between two posts, with a third attached by cordage, and can be balanced upright above the main hull. A large plant fibre tassel hangs from the top point. Part b is a 'canoe lee platform' meant to hang off the opposite side from the outrigger. Parts c-d are very small removable benches that fit into spaces at the fore and aft of the main hull. Part e is a rudder; parts f-g are leaf-shaped blade model paddles; part h is a model steering paddle; part i is a smaller model paddle with a leaf-shaped blade (its wood matches that of the platform).

Culture
Yapese
Material
plant fibre, breadfruit wood, bamboo grass, wood, sennit and pandanus leaf
Made in
Lamotrek, Yap, Federated States of Micronesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ceremonial Tunic3289/21

Rectangular shaped tunic made of pounded barkcloth from fig tree bark. Hole cut in centre for head, and reinforced with some orange stitches. The tunic is predominantly covered in jaguar print markings, which are a deeper orange-red on the back. There are small human figures and a bull(?) on the chest, also a circle with five points inside, four in a square and a central point. This design is similar to traditional ceremonial xikules (large circles with a central point). The bottom central line of the tunic is painted with water droplets.

Culture
Maya: Lacandon
Material
fig bark and annatto seed pigment
Made in
Chiapas, Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bag3289/92

Small barkcloth bag. Composed of a single rectangular piece of cloth, folded, and then loop-stitched along both sides. A small rounded flap hangs over the open end. A long barkcloth strap is attached to loops on either side of the bag.

Culture
Maya: Lacandon
Material
fig bark, plant fibre and fibre
Made in
Chiapas, Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bag3289/91

Large barkcloth bag. Composed of a single rectangular piece of cloth, folded, and then loop-stitched along both sides. A small rounded flap hangs over the open end. A long barkcloth strap is attached to loops on either side of the bag. There are a few single stitches of orange thread throughout.

Culture
Maya: Lacandon
Material
fig bark, plant fibre and fibre
Made in
Chiapas, Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Flute3287/2

Cylindrical flute with three openings along front. Top and bottom of flute are flattened. Two finger holes at the top and a large opening near the bottom. Six pointed star carved into flute beneath bottom opening. Snake carved above bottom opening. Snake's body curves out from around flute's right side. The head is directly above the opening, with forked tongue sticking out. Snake has thin diamond between its eyes, and diamonds and X's carved along its body. Only head and upper body of snake design are carved.

Culture
Interior Amazonia ?
Material
grass ?
Made in
Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa Cloth3367/2

Large rectangular tapa cloth with overall background pattern stamped in light red-brown. Overtop are dark red-brown and black painted designs in flowers, diamonds, triangles and dots.

Culture
Samoan
Material
paper mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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