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BasketC1486 a-b

Plain woven basket (part b) with a lid (part a), and having a rectangular shape. Very simple design on the lid (part a) consisting of four triangles pointing toward the centre, and edged with a double row of outward pointing triangles along the top perimeter.

Culture
Western Polynesian
Material
palm leaf
Made in
Pacific Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketC996

A woven basket with a rounded oval shape and rounded sides. The basket has a weave design consisting of counter-clock-wise closed arrowhead-shapes around open work. The main design consists of three horizontal black bands on a natural background with the top band having an alternating pattern of four downward pointing vertical lines and four upward pointing vertical lines while the two bottom bands are simple horizontal lines. The handle curves from one side to the other and has a woven checked pattern.

Culture
Samoan
Material
palm leaf
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketC997

A woven basket with an oval shape that has upward and outward flaring sides. Simple geometric patterns consisting of two hour-glass-like shapes of purple and maroon on a natural background on each side of the basket at either sides of the handle. The handle curves over the basket from one side to the other and continues around the bottom with a reddish-brown woven zig zag pattern along the top.

Culture
Samoan
Material
palm leaf
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FanC463

A basketry woven fan with a deltoid leaf shape. The main geometric design consists of a double pair of curved dark brown bark rows, one from the inside and the other along the outside, going from the bottom of one side to the top of the other side. Light brown bark background.

Culture
Fijian
Material
hair, wood, palm leaf and bark
Made in
Vanua Levu, Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model CanoeC722 a-c

Carved model of a canoe (part a) with one attached outrigger and two carved paddles (parts b-c). The canoe (part a) has a basketry woven triangular sail. At the bottom of the mast, there is a square board perpendicular to it at the top of the canoe (part a), from which square board five horizontal cylindrical beams attach to the outrigger with the three larger beams. One paddle (part b) is long with a knob at the end of the handle. The other paddle (part c) has a cordate shape with a thin handle.

Culture
Fijian
Material
wood, plant fibre and leaf
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Pot StopperC1268

A flattened round pot stopper made out of a variety of plant fibres within, around, and wrapped around.

Culture
Fijian
Material
bark ? or leaf ?
Made in
Nakoro, Nadroga-Navosa, Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeaddressH1.34 a-b

Headdress made from an elaborate vertical piece (part b) attached to a woven, hoop-shaped headband (part a). The lower half of the vertical piece consists of several tassels, pom-poms and a god's eye fashioned from blue, red, green and orange yarn; the upper portion consists of a plume of brown, black and white feathers. The headband is a light yellow-brown, woven from thin strips of palm leaf with a Greek key-like pattern encircling the sides.

Culture
Interior Amazonia
Material
fibre, feather and palm leaf
Made in
Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketH1.203 a-b

A light yellow-brown woven coil basket with a flat, circular bottom, slightly flared sides, and a flat lid. The basket and lid each have three short bands of purple, while the lid has an additional three bands of purple wool woven into it.

Culture
Chilean
Material
grass, wool fibre, leaf and dye
Made in
Chile
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketC998

A light brown round basket with a simple open weave pattern and a wide mouth. Plaited handle atttached from one side curving upward to attach to the other side. Flat circular lid is attached to the mouth of the basket.

Culture
Samoan
Material
palm leaf
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket1242/5

Rectangular basket with plaited bottom that curves upward to twined walls whose warp it made of the strips of the base. Four dark bands of decoration go around walls; the bands are in groups of two and separate the height into thirds.

Culture
Northwest Coast ?
Material
cedar bark, palm leaf fibre ?, cedar root ? and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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