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Wedding Hat1538/2

Conical light yellow-brown woven hat with red and black painted designs; a band of red and black colour rings the top of the hat, an eagle-like bird's head is featured on one side, and a black band of colour along the bottom edge. The design is of an eagle and copper.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
spruce root and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HatA6109

Spruce root hat with design painted in black and green. Brim is mixed twined work (diagonal twilled design of chevron patterns), crown is diagonal twined, top is plain twined with three diagonal twined rows near the centre. Inner hat band is plaited with spruce root weft and cedar root warp.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
cedar root, paint and spruce root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HatA6108

Spruce root hat with applied design of a bird in black and green paint. Painted green cross on top. Spruce root warp and weft. Brim is mixed twined weave (diagonal twilled design of chevron patters), crown is three strand twined weave with plain twined weave at the top. Hat has a braided border and a diagonal twined inner headband.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
spruce root and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket1403/1

Oblong, coiled basket with four slightly angled sides. The exterior is decorated with two bands of opposite facing birds and animals that appear to be caribou. Above these bands are two bands of geometric decoration.

Culture
Tsilhqot'in
Material
reed grass, spruce root and bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNb660

Basket with a tight weave and slightly concave dish shape. Decorated with a ridge near the centre that has every third strand in light red alternating with two strands of undyed root. There is a decorative band near the rim of the dish with a geometric arrow design.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
dye and spruce root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket715/1

Round, tightly woven basket with brightly coloured bands of geometric patterns on outer surface. Basket has straight, outward slanting walls.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
spruce root, dye and grass
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNa1169

Oval birch bark basket that tapers to a square base. Basket is formed from one piece of birch bark and is stitched at both ends. Reinforced wood rim is lashed to body of basket with spruce root--small segments of spruce roots are dyed red. Sides are decorated with a scraped vegetal design of four plants, with crosshatching on one end and the base left undecorated.

Culture
Wet'suwet'en ?
Material
spruce root, wood, birch bark and dye
Made in
Burns Lake, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNa1167

Oval shaped birch bark container with tapered, almost square base; sides flare outwards. Rim reinforced with a bent twig lashed with spruce root. Stitched together at narrower sides with spruce root. Dark inner bark on the outside of the container has been scraped away in places to form a design of lighter colour. Design consists of two horizontal bands, each band consists of five scraped rows; two outer rows with triangular motif extending outwards, three inner rows straight and narrow. Note: bottom band on one side has only two inner rows. Rim has seven to eight wraps of green coloured spruce root at endpoints and two to three wraps of red coloured spruce root divided by two wraps of natural spruce root at midpoints.

Culture
Gitxsan ?
Material
dye, wood, spruce root and birch bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNa1166

Oval shaped birch bark basket at rim tapering to a square base. Decorative design covers entire exterior surface, except bottom. Design consists of a series of three horizontal repeated motifs of alternating dark brown waves and lines with light brown scraped waves and lines. The sewn side seams form an inverted "y" shape. Seams secured by spruce root stitches. Red and yellow fibre is woven through top of lashed rim--only traces remain.

Culture
Gitxsan ?
Material
wood, spruce root, birch bark, dye ? and fibre ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNa1165

Oval birch bark basket with square base. Body of basket is stitched together at the two ends with spruce root. Stitches seen on both interior and exterior. Decoration is scraped on side. Pattern consists of three stripes bordered by bands having triangles side by side pointing out. The pattern is repeated seven times around body of basket. Rim is of wood lashed to basket walls by spruce root. Four 7 cm sections of rim are decorated with red cedar bark (?) strands woven in plain checker. Between decorated sections, wood is covered with dark brown red cedar bark (?) lashed on with spruce root in "x" patterns; three sections have three "x"s each and the fourth section has four "x"s, two broken.

Culture
Gitxsan ?
Material
cedar bark ?, wood, spruce root, birch bark and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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