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BasketA2.706

Brown birch bark basket with an oval-shaped top and a rectangular bottom. Bark is bent and laced into place with birch twine around the rim overcast with thin strips of root; decorative bands of alternating black and grey are featured at four points along the rim. Geometric and linear patterns are scratched onto the exterior sides, revealing a lighter shade of bark.

Culture
Dakelhne: Nat'ooten: Babine
Material
birch bark, cedar root and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2.705

Brown birch bark basket with an oval-shaped top and a rectangular bottom. Bark is bent and laced into place with birch twine around the rim overcast with thin strips of root; decorative bands of alternating natural and coloured strips are featured on the rim. Geometric and linear patterns are scratched onto the exterior sides, revealing a lighter shade of bark.

Culture
Dakelhne: Nat'ooten: Babine
Material
birch bark, cedar root and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2.703

Brown birch bark basket with an oval-shaped top and a rectangular bottom. Bark is bent and laced into place with birch twine around the rim overcast with thin strips of root; decorative bands of alternating black and red are featured at four points along the rim. Geometric and linear patterns are scratched onto the exterior sides, revealing a lighter shade of bark.

Culture
Dakelhne: Nat'ooten: Babine
Material
birch bark, cedar root and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2.704

Brown birch bark basket with an oval-shaped top and a rectangular bottom. Bark is bent and laced into place with birch twine around the rim overcast with thin strips of root; decorative bands of black are featured at four points along the rim. Geometric and linear patterns are scratched onto the exterior sides, revealing a lighter shade of bark.

Culture
Dakelhne: Nat'ooten: Babine
Material
birch bark, cedar root and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA2.702

Brown birch bark basket with an oval-shaped top and a rectangular bottom. Bark is bent and laced into place with birch twine around the rim overcast with thin strips of root. Geometric and linear patterns are scratched onto the exterior sides, revealing a lighter shade of bark.

Culture
Dakelhne: Nat'ooten: Babine
Material
birch bark, cedar root and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA3114

Basket made of birch bark that has been bent and sewn together with birch root. Birch twig around rim is overcast with birch root. Geometric design around sides is scratched on. On one side is lines with triangles (vertex down). On the other side are vertical lines of diamonds. The darker side of the bark is to the outside. (Raley label #165 on base.)

Culture
Gitxsan
Material
birch bark, birch wood and birch root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SnowshoesNa721 a-b

Two piece wood frame construction with three wooden crossbars. Pointed heel and toe, with the toe sharply bent, starting at the top cross-bar. Toe piece is open, otherwise hexagonal hide netting covers the spaces between the bars. Centre netting is attached around the frame, over cloth and leather. Diagonal strips cross over and under the horizontal strips in all sections, except adjacent to the toe hole. The section above and below the toe and foot section attach through the holes in the frame, to the outside. A hide strip runs the length of the outside, for these sections. The bent toe section has a hide strip which attaches through the side, on the inside to the bottom of the frame. Hide strips hold the toe and tail ends through holes in the top and the inside of the frame. 'b' has copper wire at the bottom lashing.

Culture
Cree
Material
wood, flax fibre, metal and rawhide skin
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bentwood BoxA7450 a-b

Tall square bentwood box (part a) with a slightly flared lid (part b). The front and back are painted red and black in different Northwest Coast stylized distributive designs. The front and back have complex designs. The side panels are painted with a black ovoid with a red line attached at the top right and bottom left corners. Box is adzed, kerfed, steamed, bent, last corner pegged, bottom pegged and nailed. The lid has traces of black paint and made of a single piece of wood.

Culture
Tsimshian ?
Material
red cedar wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bentwood BoxA3571

Bentwood box, kerfed, steamed, bent, adzed. Pegged at one corner, and bottom of all sides. Three sides are decorated with an incised rectangle, leaving an undecorated border around it, that has carved horizontal lines. Fourth side is plain.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
cedar wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bentwood BoxA3572

Bentwood box with a lid, bent with outside corners opened and joined at the seam with wooden nails. Three of the four sides have chiselled decoration: one of the longer sides is almost completely covered in rows of chiseling with a border of relatively smooth wood, and the two shorter sides are split down the centre with one half chiseled in rows, and the other half chiseled at the top with four rows and a border on the sides and top of relatively smooth wood.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
cedar wood
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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