Mobile Figure Item Number: 1610/12 a-e from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

The first piece (part a) is the head of a female painted with a green face and a large oval headdress surrounding her entire face. The headdress has a cylindrical stepped middle part, and the whole thing is red decorated with gold dots and a yellow rim. Her face is outlined with white and she has long black fibre hair. The second piece (part b) is the upper body which has the arms bent at the elbows with the right perpendicularly forward and the left more toward the body. The hands are both held in a position whereby the thumb connects in a circle with the finger next to it. The neck is long and tapers up to a point with a metal loop. The upper body garment is red decorated with green, blue, and gold. The third piece (part c) is the three red and beige multiple stringed strands with red and white tassels which are loosely tied around the neck. The fourth piece (part d) is a skirt which tapers to a red point at the top with a metal loop. The waist has a blue belt decorated with circular gold flowers and a horizontal gold line around the top and the bottom of the belt. Oval beads are painted in three rows around the hips with a pink rope underneath. The skirt is white with visible folds in the fabric and have two sets of horizontal rows that have pink in the middle and green around them which transition to yellow at the back. There is a long thin red front panel decorated with gold dots and sideways crescents outlined with two rows of gold dots followed by a pink, green, yellow, and white garland. Two long thin orange side panels are decorated with horizontal rows of green pink, blue, yellow and black. The fifth piece (part e) is the legs which are slightly fused together with blue anklets decorated with two horizontal of gold dots around the middle. The dark pink feet are standing on a rounded circular base painted grey and black. There is a metal loop at the top of the legs.