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Skirt Board1485/2

Carved wooden, oval shaped board with engraved designs. Detailed are ten bands of different geometric designs consisting of horizontal lines, diagonal lines, triangles and a t-like shape pattern. Covering the top is a light brown pigment. The underside is undecorated.

Culture
Trobriand
Material
teak wood ? and pigment
Made in
Kiriwina Islands, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ClubC668

Club with short handle that has a slightly rounded triangular end and a flaring blade. The blade is decorated with incised spiral, crescent and wave designs in relief on the top half of both faces. Palm leaves are threaded through holes along the end of the blade.

Culture
Trobriand
Material
ebony wood and palm leaf
Made in
Kiriwina Islands, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ContainerIg406 a-b

Distorted brown sphere (part a) open at one end with a cylindrical light wood stopper (part b). Sphere (part a) has a geometric design in horizontal bands that are incised around the upper half of the outer surface. The inside is hollowed out and filled with white powdered lime? The stopper (part b) has an incised band around the upper edge. It is 9 centimetres in diameter and 2.7 centimetres long.

Culture
Trobriand
Material
coconut nutshell, wood and lime mineral ?
Made in
Kiriwina Islands, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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StaffC659

Dark brown wood staff that is square at both ends which taper toward a cylindrical centre. Finial has the form of a crouching human figure. Body is decorated with spiral designs. Face has circular eyes, a nose, and a thin line for a mouth. Cheeks have a Y-design. A line is above the head and curls around the side of the face. A band of zig zag line is around the base of the figure. Designs emphasized with white lime.

Culture
Trobriand
Material
wood and lime mineral
Made in
Kiriwina Islands, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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StaffC660

Brown wood staff with two symmetrical stylized figures back to back. An elaborate spiral bands design forms the handle along with a flat curved protrusion. The rest is round and tapered with a pointed end. Carved designs are filled in with white.

Culture
Trobriand
Material
clay and wood
Made in
Kiriwina Islands, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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StaffC661

Dark, black-brown wooden staff with a roughly cylindrical shaft. The top of the staff is decorated with the figure of a man with a bird on his head, all covered by spiral and geometric motifs carved in relief and rubbed with white pigment. Below the figure are three flanges extending downwards with pieces of leaf threaded through a series of holes.

Culture
Trobriand
Material
pigment ? and wood
Made in
Kiriwina Islands, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpatulaC831

Spatula with an elongated flat blade that has a rounded tip, and a handle with four ridges. The butt end of the handle has a cylindrical finial with an incised zigzag design. Where the neck of the blade meets the handle there is an incised scrolling design. The incised designs have been filled in with white pigment.

Culture
Trobriand
Material
ebony wood and lime mineral
Made in
Kiriwina Islands, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpatulaC834

Brown-black wood piece that has a handle in the form of a crouching human figure with spiral and feather designs which are emphasized with lime. Face has large circular eyes, a long cross-shaped nose, and a wide smile with teeth. 'Blade' tapers to a flat rounded point. Triangular band design between the figure and the rest of the carved designs.

Culture
Trobriand
Material
ebony wood and lime mineral
Made in
Kiriwina Islands, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ClubC663

Club with three-tiered handle, the top two segments tapering and the bottom segment conical, and a sarrated flat blade that curves outwards slightly at the edges to a blunt tip. The finial has an incised fern-like design, and the blade has mainly scroll patterns with some geometric motifs.

Culture
Trobriand
Material
wood
Made in
Kiriwina Islands, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ClubC664

Club with a long tooth-edged blade, a cylindrical handle, and a finial at the tip of the handle with a scrolling design. The blade tip is rounded, and the blade has a raised band running lengthwise that flares outward to the edges at either end of the blade.

Culture
Trobriand
Material
wood
Made in
Kiriwina Islands, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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