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DishA3388

Plain, canoe-shaped dish carved from a solid plank of wood. Dark brown-black in colour with adze marks visible on most surfaces.

Culture
Tsimshian: Gitxaala
Material
wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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DishA3389

Dark brown canoe-shaped dish decorated with brass studs which have been adhered to the rim. Adze marks visible on the exterior of the bowl. Brass studs grouped in sets of three, centred on the rims of each of the four sides. Small holes have been made through the base of the dish and one of the longer sides.

Culture
Coast Salish: Quwutsun'
Material
brass metal and wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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LadleA3391

Dark brown wooden ladle with a handle in the form of bird's head and a deep bowl with a rounded bottom.

Culture
Gitxsan
Material
wood and oil ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2433 a-b

Small urn shaped coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with foot and lid (part b). Watch-spring base and lid construction. Imbricated design of large checkerboard diamond shapes in red bark and grass and black bark and grass. Lid has three small checkerboard triangles around rim in same colour configuration, with another row above of checkerboard triangles. Foot is beaded with grass in two rows.

Culture
Coast Salish ?
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, cat-tail grass ? and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA3083

Footed, cylindrical openwork basket: wrapped twined openwork basket with two wide strips of flat cherry bark woven in wicker weave; single coil border anchors braided trim along top circumferences; square plaited bottom two stripes of red cherry bark with dyed band above.

Culture
Coast Salish
Material
cedar wood ?, spruce root and cherry bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA3091

Tall, undecorated, plaited, square basket with an overcast rim. Has a band inside the middle of one side.

Culture
Nisga'a
Material
cedar root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA3096

Basket in the shape of a suitcase. Side opposite lid has a large complex star figure in white, black and red, surrounded by beaded border of circles and semi-circles. Edges are decorated in red, black and white beading which creates a pattern of circles and semi-circles. The lid has a border similar in appearance to the side opposite, and an inner pattern of white chevrons and black verticals. Simple coiled work (with bifurcated stitches) with parallel slat base and lid construction.

Culture
Interior Salish: Stl'atl'imx
Material
cedar root, rawhide skin, canary grass, cherry bark, metal and cedar wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Work BasketA3101

Coiled cedar root basket decorated with discrete vertical stripes of checkerboard pattern alternating in black-dyed bark / white cat-tail and red bark / white cat-tail. Pattern continues three-quarters of the way down the basket with a red/white horizontal line as a border. The rim is decorated with beading in cat-tail grass. Parallel splint base construction and partial imbrication.

Culture
Coast Salish: Sto:lo
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, cat-tail grass ? and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA3107

Roughly cylindrical woven basket with a square bottom and round upper rim. Plaited checker work with braided border. Four horizontal lines of brown (one every eight rows).

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
cedar bark and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketryA3110 a-b

Glass bottle covered with a woven sleeve (a) and woven cap (b). Decorated with two bands of purple and yellow along the top and bottom, as well as two similar bands with red triangular bands around the centre framing a bird on one side and a canoe on the other. Cap has a black circle in the centre and bands of colour at the edges. Wrapped twined weave with some plain twined weave on the base, covering glass bottle.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
aniline dye, swamp grass and glass
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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