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HatB137

Circular, dome-shaped hat made from leaves with banding around the rim. A circular fabric piece with geometric red and white stitching arranged concentrically around a star design with a mirrored inset caps the hat's centre. Palm leaf painted or stained a red-brown colour, sewn to the rim and embroidered.

Culture
Malay
Material
fibre, stem ?, palm leaf and stain ?
Made in
Malacca, Maluku, Malaysia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TrayK4.96

A shallow circular herring-bone-like weave basketry tray that has a wooden rim covered with a light on dark checkered pattern and a rounded bottom.

Culture
East African
Material
palm leaf and wood
Made in
Tanzania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketC1450

A circular basket which tapers inward from the widest part at the middle. It has a simple open weave pattern with a design consisting of small panels of brown and red and a horizontal row of upward pointing triangles in open-work pattern around the lower sides.

Culture
Samoan
Material
palm leaf
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketC1482

Slightly open-weaved basket with a jar shape and a handle that curves from one side to the other. The basket has a wide opening with a thicker rounder upper body which tapers downward.

Culture
Samoan
Material
palm leaf
Made in
Samoa ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BallC1311

Poi ball. Stuffed palm leaf ball with fringe in orange, yellow, blue, and natural colours. Long cord attached to top of ball.

Culture
Maori
Material
flax fibre, palm leaf and paper
Made in
New Zealand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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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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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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