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LadleK2.269

Spoon carved from one piece of wood with a shallow bowl that has a pointed tip, a handle with a roughly circular tip, and designs in poker work featuring bands on the handle where it meets the bowl and a triangular shape at the bowl tip as well as two lines that border the bowl rim.

Culture
Hausa
Material
wood
Made in
Giwa, Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpoonK2.267

Spoon made from half a gourd with poker work designs applied to the inner surfaces. The rim of the spoon is blackened from bowl to handle and two lines extend from the tip of the handle to the neck of the bowl with a zigzag line between them.

Culture
Hausa
Material
gourd fruit
Made in
Giwa, Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpoonK2.266

Spoon made from half a gourd with poker work designs applied to the inner surfaces. The rim of the spoon is blackened from bowl to handle and two lines extend from the tip of the handle to the neck of the bowl.

Culture
Hausa
Material
gourd fruit
Made in
Giwa, Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpoonK2.264

Spoon made from half a gourd with poker work designs applied to the inner surfaces. The rim of the bowl is blackened with a series of lines and zigzags on the handle, two hooked lines that extend from the handle into the bowl, and one brush line on the inside of the spoon bowl.

Culture
Hausa
Material
gourd fruit
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Throwing KnifeK2.252

Throwing knife with a long blade and a protruding segment near the midpoint of the length. Above the protruding element, the blade curves towards the protruding segment, and then abruptly curves back near the tip. The butt end is pointed and plant fibre is wrapped around the handle shaft.

Culture
Hausa ?
Material
iron metal and plant fibre
Made in
Nigeria ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearK2.251

Cast-iron head with a wood handle covered with leather decorations. Goat hair strip around the middle with fringes in turquoise, white, and black-lined brown strips of leather. Has an attached spear head cover of leather.

Culture
Hausa
Material
iron metal, wood and leather skin
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TextileK2.177

Rectangular shape, natural coloured cotton textile made of seven stripes sewn together; six run horizontally, one vertically. The textile is undecorated.

Culture
Hausa
Material
cotton fibre
Made in
Abuja, Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArmbandK2.50

Armband composed of copper wire bent into a c shape with a single strand hammered faceted knob at each end.

Culture
Hausa
Material
copper metal
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Arm OrnamentK2.49

Arm ornament, or bracelet, composed of alternating copper and tin bands twisted together and finished with tin knobs on each end.

Culture
Hausa
Material
copper metal and tin metal
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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OrnamentK2.48

Ornament composed of a single piece of twisted iron, square in cross-section, bent into a circle with the tips bent back. The ends overlap.

Culture
Hausa
Material
iron metal
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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