Marble Island

Item number 1749/7 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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A colourful print of several figures. On the top left, there is a figure on a boat holding a box of tea. There is a large flag on the boat with an image of a face. The prow of the boat is a head with fangs(?) and some of the figures have fangs. There are floating mouths with fangs(?), and eyes and arms in the lower portion of the image. There are syllabics in the lower left and mid-right areas of the image. The space surrounding the figures is filled with short, linear marks of orange, dark blue, and green. In the lower right corner, there is a small yellow image of a right pointing arrow emerging from a bulge pointing to pencilled syllabic. Pencil inscription across the bottom edge reads 'Marble Island 29/50 1980...(?)'. In the lower right corner, there is a circular embossing. The print is on a horizontally rectangular, white paper piece.