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Model Totem Pole1354/2 a-c

Model totem pole of a bear holding an animal figure with an eagle perched on the bear's head. Totem pole is painted green, red and black, and has two spread, painted wings protruding from the sides of the eagle (parts b and c). Entire carving is mounted on a square wooden base.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood and paint
Made in
Winter Harbour, British Columbia, Canada and Oyagamla, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Frontlet Headdress709/1

Ermine headdress attached to a wooden frontlet. Frontlet in painted in blue, red and black with a central figure of a humanoid face with protruding, hooked nose encircled by a red-lined ring of abalone. Two faces, one humanoid and mask-like, the other round and black with red lips, sit atop and below the main face. The eyes of all three faces are inlaid with abalone. The frontlet is attached to the front of a circular white fur cap, attached to a long train (90 cm) of white ermine pelts with brown tails sewn onto a length of white fabric backing. A vertical row of brown whiskers protrude from the cap directly behind the top of the frontlet.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
yew wood, fibre, ermine skin, paint, abalone shell, eagle down feather ? and sea lion whisker ?
Made in
'Yalis (Alert Bay), British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headdress1398/1

Wooden thunderbird headdress with an orange beak, red mouth and nostrils, and black, white and red ears and face. Top edge of headdress is ringed with braided brown and dyed, red cedar bark. Top of headdress between the two ears are tightly packed vertical strands of brown and red cedar bark and brown and white feathers.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
cedar wood, feather, paint, cedar bark, fibre and metal
Made in
Kingcome Inlet, British Columbia, Canada and Ukwanalis, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ladle1570/20

Large, rounded wooden spoon-like ladle with an elongated cylindrical handle protruding from the top of the ladle at a forty-five degree angle. Made from a single piece of wood, the handle has a carved linear pattern around its centre while the ladle itself has a thin outline-like ridge carved on it following the shape of the outer edge.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw ?
Material
wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Rattle1258/1

Elliptically shaped wooden rattle with straight, thick handles protruding from both ends. Each handle has a flat knob-like end and string spooled around it. The rattle itself is painted with two faces in red, black and white.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, fibre, glass and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ladle1570/50

Wooden ladle with large scoop and handle carved in the shape of an eagle. Eagle figure has incised decorations on wings, back, tail, and head.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw ?
Material
wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Puppet ClothA7877 b

Piece of cloth detached from a cradle puppet. A roughly pennant-shaped piece of white cloth painted with a design in black. A small piece of wood is tied to the upper right corner.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
paint, fibre, cedar bark and wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fragment: HeaddressA3633 b-c

Two pieces of painted cotton (parts b and c) that used to be attached to the wooden bird headdress (part a). Part b has red and black Northwest Coast style designs, including a face, painted on it. Part c has Northwest Coast style feathers painted in black and a scalloped, feather-like edge along one side.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
cotton fibre and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fragment: MaskA3588 b-d

Three pieces of painted cotton that used to be attached to a wooden bird mask (part a). Parts b and c have green and brown feather-like designs painted on them; part d is painted with green and blue shapes.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
paint and cotton fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA5269

Mask with a long tuft of orange, grey, brown and off-white feathers attached to a stick and protruding from the top of the forehead. The mask is painted with heavy black eyebrows, a green design on the forehead, red around the slightly protruding eyes, a green line across the cheeks and bridge of the nose, red nostrils and thin lips, a black moustache and goatee, and a curved dotted green line extending from the side of the chin to the nose on both sides of the face.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood and feather
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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