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BasketNi6

Circular coiled basket with handle. Round watch-spring coiled bottom. Light white-brown yucca with black devil's claw fibre for geometric pattern. Pattern is three sets of rectangles inside one another. Handle has separate bands of black and outer rim has black crisscross overlay.

Culture
Tohono O'odham
Material
devil claw pod and yucca leaf
Made in
Arizona, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNi5

Circular bowl with round watch-spring coiled bottom in light white-brown yucca and black devil's claw fibre for geometric step design radiating from centre to outer edge. Coiled outer rim.

Culture
Tohono O'odham
Material
devil claw pod and yucca leaf
Made in
Arizona, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MedicineAa125

Oval shaped light brown seed pod. Exterior covered with short protrusions and exposed interior contains fibrous material.

Culture
Khoisan ?
Material
pod
Made in
Okavango Swamps, Botswana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FluteC1076

A long cylindrical brown reed tube with a pod attached to one end. Dark brown geometric designs including a sun is painted on the tube. Three holes are cut into the tube. Reed is placed into reed tube at the mouthpiece.

Culture
Polynesian
Material
pod and reed grass
Made in
Pacific Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Divination BasketK4.330 a-r

Woven root basket (part a) and divination contents (parts b-r). The coiled basket has watch-spring and splint weave at base. The contents of the basket are: b) short piece of horn pierced at tip and base; c) desiccated hoof; d) cowrie shell; e) part of seed pod; f) cocoon covered with sticks; g) wooden thread spool; h) disc of copper; i) carved, cylindrical wood object; j) carved wooden effigy; k) fruit pit; l) wood with wax coating; m) fragment of black plastic or bakelite; n) stone; o) ball of wax; p) smaller ball of wax; q) ball of wax with hollow centre; r) fragment tar-paper with two nails.

Culture
Chokwe ? or Ovimbundu ?
Material
horn, root, wood, shell, metal, copper metal, stone, hoof, cocoon, wax and pod
Made in
Angola
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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