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Batik Textile2542/11

Rectangular piece of dark blue textile with a painted bird. The bird has a brown head and legs and a black body with white spots. The background is blue with traces of black. The top edge of the textile is adhered to a white folded card backing.

Culture
East African
Material
fibre, paint, paper and dye
Made in
Kenya
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Batik Textile2542/10

Rectangular piece of green textile with a painted black bird perched in a tree. The bird is black with a red eye and a white wing and tail. The tree is black, brown and white. There are traces of red on the tree and black on the green background. The top edge of the textile is adhered to a yellow folded card backing.

Culture
East African
Material
fibre, paint, paper and dye
Made in
Kenya
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Comb2542/9

Wooden comb with 14 teeth, widening toward the end. Teeth are held together with three separate woven sections of grass. Bottom is rectangular and has a rectangular hole in the middle. The other two sections are bands of interwoven grass, the middle one wider than the other. Between the two bands there is a red-brown piece of leather that is wrapped around the 5th and 10th teeth and also attached to the grass weaves, with five holes at the top and two at the bottom.

Culture
East African
Material
wood, grass ? and leather skin
Made in
Kenya
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ShieldK4.357

Rhinoceros hide shield. Circular, brown piece with a conical point in the middle of the exterior and a wide rim. Exterior has four concentric bands of perpendicular stripes. Interior has a handle.

Culture
East African
Material
rhinocero skin
Made in
Somalia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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DrumAj101

A small cylindrical wood drum which tapers downward. Covered with skin that has brown and white fur. Has a handle made from the same skin.

Culture
East African
Material
wood and skin
Made in
Kenya ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureAc105

A small thin elongated dark brown wood figure wearing a white fluffy feather headdress, a fibre light yellow grass-like skirt, and a multi-layered metal ring necklace with coiled metal earrings. Standing with legs close together and an oval base.

Culture
East African
Material
wood, fibre, metal and feather
Made in
East Africa, Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Necklace407/1

A beaded oval-shaped necklace with the top rim row beaded with dark blue beads and a white seed bead at the end of one of its extensions. The pattern consists of alternating rows of white seed beads and zig zag rows of red, white, and blue beads. The last row is of white seed beads with a red bead at their ends.

Culture
East African
Material
glass ?, synthetic fibre ? and seed
Made in
Kenya
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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DrumCb93

Tall narrow wood pedastal, widening out to drum at top. Covered with reptile skin, nailed on with wooden pegs. Holes through protrusions near top and bottom rim on one side.

Culture
East African ?
Material
wood and reptile skin
Made in
Sudan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Whisk734/11

Cylindrical piece beaded with a spiral design of green and white with long dark brown hair coming out of one end.

Culture
East African
Material
animal hair and glass
Made in
East Africa, Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fan636/6

Brown coloured fan with pink coloured tassel attached to metal clasp. When extended, the fan has thirty-one panel pieces each with cut-out floral and vine-like designs on the top three-quarters of the panel. Each panel piece is strung together near the top of the fan by strand of white coloured braided fibre and the bottom portion of panel pieces are secured with a looped metal clasp.

Culture
East African
Material
wood, metal and fibre
Made in
Zanzibar, Tanzania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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