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Model Canoe2714/1

Wooden model canoe with painted designs. The stylized designs are painted on the outsides in red and black. The upper edges are red, with an interior black line.

Culture
Tsimshian ?
Material
wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bentwood BoxA8539 a-b

Bentwood box with painted designs in black and red; with a lid (part b) with edges that bevel inwards towards the base. The main decoration fills each of two opposite sides with a bilaterally symmetrical design. The other two sides each have a less elaborate abstract design formed by an ovoid with two u-forms centred on each panel, also in black and red. The side joint and bottom are nailed.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
metal, paint and cedar wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNb7.313

Oval cedar bark basket with a square bottom and dark brown diagonal overlay decoration. Decoration consists of four pair of two parallel lines each of dyed cedar bark. Decoration starts near the rim and turns at the corner of base and proceeds up towards the opposite rim, resulting in the decoration covering all sides of basket. Dyed bark is seen every other stitch. String handles consist of two bundles of three pieces of string. The two bundles run parallel to each other, joined together at their top edges by another bundle of two or three pieces of string 6 cm. long. String runs inside the basket for 2.7 cm. on one side, and 4 cm. on the other. String does not run on the underside of the basket.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
fibre and cedar bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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House Screen BoardNb7.240 a

A long rectangular cedar plank with faded Northwest Coast designs imprinted in the surface of the wood; black and red designs are barely perceptible.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
red cedar wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tsimshian CosmosNb7.342

Scaled down model house front with painted designs. The panel is rectangular with an upper centre peak. There is a lower oval opening painted black (representing the original opening). The designs feature ovoid shapes and bird motifs in black and red on a plain wooden ground. There are red borders on the sides and top.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
cedar wood and acrylic paint
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceA9075

Cedar rope necklace with decorated bundles of red fibre and fabric, animal skin and strips of cedar bark tied to four animal claws, one ermine body, one ermine head and a piece of broken black stone.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
ermine skin, cedar bark, foot, fibre and stone
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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PaddleA2500

Wood paddle with a marquise-shaped blade with the widest point near the tip and which narrows to a shaft which is round in cross section. Butt is rectangular in cross section with an indentation cut near the top which is carved as a transverse cylinder. Blade has a painted design in black that consists of an ovoid in tapering oval eye with a pair of u forms below that have diagonal lines within and an elongated black u form below; a black panel at the base of the blade; and a black tip.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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PaddleA1549

Natural light golden colour wood paddle with a heavily incised eye and foot or claw design on one side of the blade. Design consists of an ovoid in tapering oval eye in ovoid with a split u at either side; a pair of u forms and another pair of u forms below; a three digit claw-like feature with an ovoid in ovoid behind; a u form at either side; a split u at the base of the blade; and a split u at the tip of the blade.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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PaddleA1558

Wood paddle that has a fine design carved in relief on the blade and painted in red and black on both sides. Design consists of an ovoid in tapering oval eye in an ovoid with a split u in front; a pair of red and a pair of black u forms below; a split u behind with a four digit claw-like feature with a central ovoid in ovoid below; a u form at either side; a black split u at the base of the blade; and a red split u at the tip of the blade.

Culture
Tsimshian ? or Nisga'a ?
Material
wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Chilkat Pattern BoardA8326

Distributive design painted in black on natural wood. The left side, from the top to the bottom, has the following: three circles in a rectangle each; an eye form in an ovoid; a circle in a rectangle with a pair of circles in a split u each; an ovoid in an ovoid with a profile face facing to the right side; and three circles in a rectangle each. The right side, from the top to the bottom, has the following: an eye form in an ovoid with a pair of circles in a rectangle each; an eye form in an ovoid with a pair of circles in a rectangle each above and a front facing face with an oval in a box in between; an eye form in an ovoid with a pair of eyes and a pair of circles in a rectangle each below; and a pair of circles in a split u form each with a front facing face.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
cedar wood and paint
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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