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Drawing3223/14

A drawing of five skulls on a one-sided piece of paper. The drawing is horizontally oriented. The top-right edge of the paper is cut into a concave curve; the bottom-right edge is cut at a forty-five degree angle. The background of the drawing is decorated with crisscrossing assemblages of line patterns of varying lengths and thicknesses. There are two parallel orange lines extending horizontally from the very left skull to the right edge of the paper; all of the line assemblages above the parallel lines are drawn in orange ink, below the lines are both orange and yellow assemblages. In the foreground, five human skulls are drawn in a row; the skulls are outlined in dark green ink, the interior space is white, and the eye sockets and nasal cavities are decorated with crisscrossing green line patterns. The reverse-side of the paper is blank.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hupacasaht
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3223/6

A vertically oriented drawing on a single-sided piece of paper. At the top of the page is a decorated crescent-shaped being with eyes, a mouth, and a curled nose. A small coastal mountain scene is drawn below. Under the mountain scene, in the middle section of the page, are six human-like figures, and a human skull. The human-like figures all have their hands in the air, their hair is drawn upwards suggesting that they are moving in a downward direction, and they all have circular eyes and mouths. The largest human-like figure is embellished with male genitalia. The skull, larger than any of the human-like figures, is positioned horizontally in the centre of the page. At the very bottom of the page is a decorated thunderbird(?) with a human-like left hand and an arrow extending outwards from its mouth. The reverse-side of the page is blank.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hupacasaht
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3223/4

A drawing on a blue-grey coloured bookmark. The front-side of the bookmark is a hand-drawn image of a killer whale with an exaggerated body that extends around the head of the whale to the top edge of the bookmark. Above the head is the whale's dorsal(?) fin; at the very top of the bookmark is the whale's tail. The dorsal fin is decorated with three creatures, all with eye-shapes and teeth. Two human skulls are drawn on the whale, one on the whale's head and the other between the tail flukes. The whale's tongue extends outwards towards the left edge of the bookmark. An inverted lightning serpent(?) is drawn at the bottom of the bookmark; the head of the serpent is decorated with abstract shapes, a crisscross pattern, and stars. A human skull is drawn within the curve of the serpent's body. The reverse-side of the bookmark is machine-printed in black ink with information for an "I.Con II" conference, including dates, location, etc.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hupacasaht
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3223/2

A pencil drawing on a diamond-shaped piece of white paper. The front-side of the paper is a hand-drawn image of a thunderbird, set against a white background with seven small grey stars. Drawn above the head of the thunderbird is a large diamond-shaped star with a trail of dashes suggesting that it is a shooting star. Two rounded feathers(?) sit atop the bird's head. A circular eye is surrounded by a teardrop-like shape. The beak is decorated with a tower-shape in an arch, and circular ovoid. A waving arrow extends from the mouth of the bird. A line of wide rounded zigzags, starting at the base of the bird's head, descends into a talon(?) decorated with a horizontally positioned oval with a cross. A wing, extending from the torso, is embellished with a creature with teeth and an eye-shape(?), an inverted tower-shape, and two shallow crescents.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hupacasaht
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3223/60

A drawing of a whale on a tan coloured paper advertisement for a bookstore and artisan studio. The paper is horizontally oriented. On the left half of the front-side, two two-story buildings with signs above their doors are machine-printed in red ink; an address and a small map, enclosed by a border, are printed in red ink on the right half of the page. Positioned above the building entitled "Artisan's Studio" and the address is a whale hand-drawn in pencil. The top horizontal red border is used as the back spine of the whale. The mouth of the whale is lined with baleen. The whale's eye is a circular ovoid; above the eye is the whale's blowhole. The pectoral fin is grooved and is decorated with an elongated diamond-shape, a tower-shape, and four crescents. The whale's tail fluke is decorated with a small tower-shape and a crescent. On the reverse-side, the left half of the page lists the commercial information of the artisan's studio; it is printed in red ink and is enclosed by a red border. The right half of the page lists the bookstore's commercial information; it is printed in red ink and is enclosed by a red border.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hupacasaht
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3223/18

A drawing on a bookmark. The front-side of the bookmark is a vertically oriented image of three whales and a skull hand-drawn in black pen on a grey-white background. At the top of the bookmark, a whale in an arched position, releases air from its blowhole. Baleen lines the mouth of the whale and the pectoral flipper is decorated with a tower-shape and an oval. Below the whale is a large human skull with a cross drawn in the centre of the forehead; the left-side of the skull is lightly shaded. Below the skull are two smaller whales; the left whale has baleen teeth and swims in a downwards motion while the right whale swims upwards and does not have baleen. A human arm and hand, decorated with an ovoid, extends from the right side of the skull along the right edge to the bottom of the page. The reverse-side of the bookmark is a machine-printed promotional advert for Malaspina College. The background is a dark turquoise colour with two dark pink lines running along the left side of the page. Within a white rectangle, the college's subject offerings and address are printed in dark pink and dark turquoise.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hupacasaht
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3223/54

A drawing on a single-sided piece of white paper. The drawing is vertically oriented. Drawn at the very top of the page is a partially submerged lightning serpent(?); the upper body of the creature is out of the water while the snake-like tail is submerged. Drawn beneath the serpent's mouth is a human-like figure descending headfirst into the water. To the left of the serpent's tail is another human-like figure, to the right of the tail is a human skull. Drawn under the tail are two more human-like figures; the right figure has male genitalia. Below the human figures is a heron(?) with a pointy beak and long neck; small bubble-like circles exit the heron's mouth. Beneath the heron is a vertically positioned seal(?) covered in fur and decorated with curving lines with intermediate dots. At the bottom of the page, a multi-limbed piece of kelp extends upwards from the seabed. The artist's signature, a "M" with a line through it and two dots, is in the bottom right corner. The reverse-side of the paper is blank.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hupacasaht
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3223/45

A hand-drawn image of a killer whale on a single-sided piece of paper. The drawing is horizontally oriented with the killer whale's head at the left edge and the tail at the right edge. The head is heavily shaded with dark grey pencil, a shaded ovoid eye is surrounded by an unshaded eye patch extending the length of the whale's head. A row of triangular teeth line the upper jaw. Above the head-body joint is an inverted human skull. The interior space of the killer whale's body is unshaded with a series of curving lines forming vertical grooves. The pectoral fin is decorated with an ovoid where the fin attaches to the body. The dorsal fin is flat with an ovoid decorating the joint. The tail is drawn with a circle design at the base, and both tail flukes are embellished with unshaded tower-shapes. Between the two flukes is a sideways human skull drawn in light grey. The artist's signature, a "M" with a line through it and two dots, is in the bottom right corner of the page. The reverse-side is blank.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hupacasaht
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3223/12

A pencil drawing on a bookmark. The front-side of the bookmark is hand-drawn. Depicted at the top is a float attached to a rope; one end of the rope is frayed while the other end of the rope, located in the bottom-centre of the bookmark, has a harpoon(?) attached. Below the float is a hook-shape with a small fin drawn on the right end; at the other end of the hook is a small human skull. To the right of the hook are two decorated fins; the left is shaded with pencil except for a small uncoloured oval towards the top; the right one is unshaded and is decorated with an oval and three tower-shapes. At the base of the two fins are two human skulls, the left skull is drawn upright and the right skull is inverted. A third wide fin(?), decorated with an oval, extends from the frontal bone of the inverted skull. In the bottom left section of the bookmark, a large human skull is drawn overtop of a shaded whale(?) head. The reverse-side of the bookmark is a vertically oriented, machine-printed image of a red-brown rabbit in a green plaid jacket holding a yellow pocket watch in one hand and an open book in the other. The phrase "SO MANY BOOKS" is printed in yellow at the top and "SO LITTLE TIME" at the very bottom of the bookmark.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hupacasaht
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3223/40

A drawing on a bookmark; the bookmark is comprised of two pages attached together at the top with an adhesive. On the front of the top bookmark, a background of horizontally oriented maple leaves is printed in gold ink. The front is decorated with a vertically oriented, hand-drawn image of an inverted lightning serpent(?); there are two creatures drawn in the interior of the serpent's body. A lightning bolt(?), with an interior creature extends from the lightning serpent's mouth towards the bottom of the bookmark. At the top there are three lines of handwritten text. At the bottom of the front bookmark is the artist's signature, a "M" with a line through it and two dots. The interior-side of the top bookmark is blank. The bottom bookmark is a machine-printed image of the Prince of Wales Hotel in Waterton Lakes National Park; a tree is in the centre of the image, to the right the hotel is aglow, and a body of water is in the background. On the interior of the bottom bookmark, three lines from the anthem "O Canada!" are printed along the vertical plane.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hupacasaht
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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