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JarIa69

Large, flat bottomed jar covered with rounded sides and a sloping neck. Jar is covered with rattan rigging; seven horizontal bands of three-element twisted rattan held together with many vertical, split and braided rattan spacers. Dark film overall.

Culture
Kalinga
Material
rattan, clay and resin ?
Made in
Philippines
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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LoomIa64 a-h

Backstrap loom with wood and bamboo bars, and rattan backstrap, (parts a-h) held together with knotted string. In order that the pieces occur. Part h is a plaited backstrap with a braided border and that narrows to wrapped handles on both sides. Part g is a flat hardwood sword with rounded ends that are slightly tapering, use-wear shows numerous slight indentations along both edges from the centre, and gives a serrated appearance. Part f is a cylindrical, dark brown hardwood stick. Part d is a hollow, brown bamboo warp beam. Part a is a cylindrical, dark brown hardwood stick with a narrower 2 cm. wide section before each knobbed end. Part b is a wide notched ended hardwood stick with one concave and one flat surface. Part e is like f but of a lighter brown. Part c is like b. String, one side black, other faded to purple-brown tied together, knotted at each element.

Culture
Ilocos
Material
bamboo grass, lacquer, cotton fibre, rattan and wood
Made in
Philippines
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HatEdz902

Round hat with a flat brim that curves down at the edge. The crown is raised and flat on top. Formed of layers of bamboo leaves, enclosed inside and outside by rattan in open hexagonal weave. Top of crown covered in light coloured rattan in a woven pattern. The brim is finished with a double rim of split bamboo, lashed on with woven rattan. Inside the crown is a square of pink paper. The hat is varnished on the outside.

Culture
Chinese: Cantonese
Material
bamboo leaf, paper, rattan, bamboo grass and lacquer
Made in
Hong Kong, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HatEdz901

A flat hat of straw in a circular twill weave of natural colour and varnished on the upper surface. Hat is disc shaped with a round hole in the centre, and finished with a bias band of blue cloth with diametrically opposed cloth loops. Outer circumference is finished with a double rim of split bamboo, affixed to the under surface of the hat with rattan. Two pieces of heavy blue cotton cloth, 15.5 cm. wide, machine stitched into fine pleats and joined with two red and two green strips of fine stitching.

Culture
Chinese: Hakka
Material
tung oil lacquer, synthetic fibre, cotton fibre, rattan, bamboo grass and grass
Made in
Shatin, Hong Kong, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HatEdz900

A flat hat of twill-weave straw with natural yellow and yellow-green colours and varnished. Hat is disc shaped with a round hole in the centre and finished with a band of black cloth with two diametrically opposed black cloth loops. Outer circumference is finished with a double rim of split bamboo affixed to the upper side of the hat with split rattan. Two pieces of thin, black cotton, 18 cm. wide, finely pleated and joined together with loose stitches of red and green thread.

Culture
Chinese: Hakka
Material
synthetic fibre, tung oil lacquer, cotton fibre, rattan, bamboo grass and grass
Made in
Hong Kong, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basketry MaterialIb432

Circular bundle of split cane, used in basket making. Natural finish and colour, ranging from light tan to dark. Discoloured. Five spiral coils in bundle.

Culture
Indonesian
Material
rattan ?
Made in
Jambi, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketIb430

Made of thin strands of natural-coloured rattan, and is approximately one half finished. The unfinished portion consists of loose individual strands that extend about 18 cm higher than the upper limit of the plaiting. Most strands curve away from the basket, but some are wrapped around the inside. The upper limit of the plaiting is not uniform on all sides. The basket has no frame, and is light and flexible. The bottom is square but the shape becomes round as the plaiting progresses upwards. A single looped strand of rattan is attached to the centre of the bottom on the outside. The strand was threaded through two woven strands and then its ends were tied together.

Culture
Dusun ?
Material
rattan
Made in
Jambi, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketIb429

The basket is woven from natural coloured fibres in an open weave design. The rim is circular, but the basket sides slant inwards as the weaving ends in square corners and the base is made from two pieces of wood slotted together to form an 'X'. Bamboo branches run from the base to the rim on both the inside and outside of the basket. The outside branches are nailed to the inside branches. There are two loops on the outside of two of the branches at about the middle of the basket.

Culture
Indonesian
Material
bamboo grass ? and rattan
Made in
Jambi, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketIb428

Closely woven rattan with four pieces of bamboo on sides and two pieces of plywood crisscrossed on bottom for support. Two rattan handles are attached to bamboo frames on same side of basket. A strip of bamboo circles the top. The pieces of bamboo frame are nailed into the rattan. Basket is wide at top tapering to a narrow bottom.

Culture
Jenki
Material
bamboo grass and rattan
Made in
Jambi, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketIb427

Basket of light-coloured rattan, in a trumpet-like shape, with light brown strips of bamboo running vertically from the light, wooden edge at the top to a mahogany (?) base. Two natural coloured handles are attached around the centre.

Culture
Jenki
Material
bamboo grass, rattan, mahogany wood ? and metal
Made in
Jambi, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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