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Dance Sash2878/1

Long white sash divided into fourteen uneven, multi-coloured, woven sections. There are several design styles represented including the “mi-shar-ri chot” or mixed design, “o-si-chin gam-bu-ri chot” or sallow tree flower design, “bir-ra kum-ba chot” or male goat/markhor crossed horn design, “pati-chot” or woman’s waist band design “pati-chot/pon-du-i-ruk” or small circle design (which appears as diamond shaped) and “shin-guk chot” or goat horn design. There are fringes on either end of the sash which are light brown and multi-coloured wool. There is also a willow loop that encircles the sash for fastening.

Culture
Kalash
Material
wool fibre, willow wood and dye
Made in
Balanguru, Northwest Frontier, Pakistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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This Song is a Museum: The ndn artist's paintbrush2932/6

Wooden drumstick with a heavily beaded handle, with a white fur tip. The shaft is decorated with tightly packed rows of small clear plastic beads, with the base of the handle covered in rawhide, wrapped with sinew. The top half of the fur tip has been darkened with black ink. There is a circular metal loop screwed into the end of the handle.

Culture
Tahltan
Material
diamond willow wood, plastic, rabbit skin, rawhide skin, sinew, ink, fibre and metal
Made in
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Olla Basket2879/1

Round, tall, woven basket. From a wide mouth, the basket curves in at the neck, flares out again at the shoulder, then tapers slightly down to a rounded base. The bottom has an 8 point star-shaped design, and the body is circled with two prominent, dark, zigzagging lines surrounding standing human figures and four legged animals with long upright ears. Triangles and more four legged animals decorate the neck of the basket.

Culture
Apache
Material
willow wood and devil claw pod
Made in
Arizona, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Plaque2879/2

Finely woven, round plaque with “Man in the Maze” pattern. On a light yellow-brown background, a small human figure stands above the dark brown woven lines of a maze, representing the twists and turns of life as one makes his way toward the Sun God in the centre circle. The weave of the plaque is tight and even, and the image is present on both front and back.

Culture
Akimel O'odham
Material
willow wood ? or cat-tail grass ?
Made in
Arizona, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Medicine Man's Wand50.67.98

Henry L. Batterman Fund and the Frank Sherman Benson Fund

Culture
Sioux
Material
willow wood ?, pony bead and dyed horsehair
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Large Basket made with the 'shi-bu' technique and decorated with woven design of a man36.519

Gift of Frederic B. Pratt

Culture
Pomo
Material
bead, feather, willow, bark ? and root thread ?
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Basket2829/1

Open rimmed birch bark basket, sewn at sides with pale yellow root strips and stitched around rim with pieces of reddish-brown bark underneath and woven into strips of pale yellow root. Decorative row of plant motif designs around two longest sides. Darker side of bark on outside, paler inside. Signed, dated on base.

Culture
Dakelhne: Nadleh Whut'en
Material
alder bark, spruce root and red willow wood
Made in
Fraser Lake, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Carved Walking Staff33.303

Gift of Mrs. Otto Goepel

Culture
Ahtna
Material
diamond willow wood
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Twined Mush Basket08.491.8640

Museum Expedition 1908, Museum Collection Fund

Culture
Pomo
Material
willow, sedge root ? and redbud bark
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Coiled Globular Basket08.491.8639

Museum Expedition 1908, Museum Collection Fund

Material
willow, sedge root and redbud bark
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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