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HookIe456

Carved wooden yipwon (hook figure). A relatively flat long wood piece with a diamond-shaped knob at one end and four prong-like protrusions at the other end. Carved with a face underneath the end with the four prong-like protrusions. Seven holes carved out along the length of the wood piece.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood
Made in
East Sepik, Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BeltC630

A long very wide strip of coiled bark carved with geometric designs emphasized with white. The design consists of an alternating pattern of compressed six-pointed stars and four-pointed stars each having a dot with a double outline at its centre. The border consists of an inner horizontal line of notches and an outer horizontal line of zig zags.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
bark, fibre and clay
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BowlC979

A small brown wood bowl carved in the shape of a tortoise. Carved designs filled with white lime. The head has circular eyes and a mouth. The body is outlined with a segmented tubular pattern having a circle at the front, the back, and in the middle of each side. While the front legs are shorter than the back legs, they are all have a swirled partial feather-like design.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
lime mineral and wood
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureC1754

A fragment of a figure (the head only). Carved and painted with white and red. The forehead is a downward pointing triangle which meets in between the upward pointing triangular eyebrows. The eyes are upraised ovals. The nose is long, and the mouth is oval surrounded by a line. The face is outlined with red. The chin is rounded. There is a small rounded cylindrical protrusion at the neck area. The back is hollowed out where there is a horizontal bar.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood and paint
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskC1375

A dark brown-black wood mask carved with geometric linear designs filled with lime, and having black, red, and white colourings. The head tapers upward and is decorated with grooved curvi-linear designs consisting of white inverted u-shapes and red tear-drop shapes. The cowrie shell eyes have a red u-line underneath and high upraised eyebrows above. The cheeks have red dots outlined with white. The face is outlined with a white-gorooved line, below which, there is a red-grooved u-shaped mouth and a pointed chin. There is a grass tassel knotted through the red-outlined nose. The pointed beard is carved with white-grooved curvi-linear lines which swirl around the bottom.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
clay, grass fibre, cowrie shell and wood
Made in
Wabag, Enga, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowC877

The shaft is without linear designs above the cane joints. The base of the shaft, near the pointed end, is wrapped with an alternating natural and red coloured thin cane strips. The point is plain dark wood with a coil-wrapped tip.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
stem ? and wood
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ShuttleC1201 a

A long thin cylindrical brown wood shuttle that has an oval "eye" at each end. Both eyes have a split along the middle at each pointed end. The shuttle is carved with a simple line decoration consisting of short horizontal lines along the outer edges of each eye, and three horizontal grooves near the junction area between each eye and the long thin cylindrical component.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ShuttleC1201 b

A brown wood shuttle that has the shape of an elongated oval with a central solid rectangular block in between two "eyes". Both "eyes" have a split along the middle at each pointed end.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HookC944

Two pieces of carved shell attached together by fibre to make the hook section secure. There is a small white feather under the fibre wrapping.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
shell, fibre and feather
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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KnifeC1390

A light thin bamboo grass knife that is carved, and decorated with a tooth pattern edge along the handle which has a dark linear and zig zag pattern on a natural light-coloured background. The end of the handle has a simple finial. The straight blade comes to a sharp point.

Culture
New Guinea ?
Material
bamboo grass
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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