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Jar893/1

Bronze-painted jar with flared foot, protruding band just below shoulder, and flared neck.; another protruding band at base of neck; handle from shoulder to lip. Decoration on shoulder of diagonally stamped, bumpy lines.

Culture
West African
Material
clay and paint
Made in
Nigeria ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Head Cloth831/2 a

Head cloth composed of four long strips of leaf-patterned damask fabric sewn together to form a rectangle. The fabric is dyed with bands of lighter and darker purple bands and long thin lines of light purple run perpendicular to these. These bands alternate with thinner bands of dark purple, and the ends are unfinished.

Culture
West African
Material
cotton fibre ? and dye
Made in
San Louis, Senegal
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bell1259/10

Four-sided bell with looped metal handle on top. Each side is square-shaped at the bottom, angles slightly inwards towards the top and edges decorated with a spiral metalwork design. Three of the four sides have metal cross-hatching designs and the fourth side has a human face protruding from its surface. The ringer, a long metal wire with small globular ball at end, is found on inside and is attached to the top of the underside of the piece.

Culture
West African
Material
brass metal
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure1259/8

Hollow, cylindrical figure of a face with protruding features; eyes are recessed. Above and below face are rows of brickwork that go around entire circumference; face is only on one side of cylinder, other side is plain; above top layer of brickwork is a domed area decorated with incised diagonal crosshatching.

Culture
West African
Material
clay
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Knife978/1 a-b

Leather-bound knife handle (part a) with long leather-bound knife sheath cover (part b) and braided straps. End of handle has a metal loop attached to a wide knob and tapers to a narrow leather braided section that flares outward at the end and holds the blade. Knife blade is inserted into the sheath (part b) that has a large flared knob at the top, tapers to a narrow leather-covered section with small vertical fibre stitching and connects to two long braided straps with thick fibre braided loop pieces. Around each loop are decorative bands of braided leather and fibre.

Culture
West African
Material
skin, metal and fibre
Made in
Liberia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mask1418/2

A wood mask painted with a red face, silvery-white mouth and ears, and two horns painted silvery-white in between and black all around while curving sideways and downward to the ears. The eyes are cut out. There is a beard made of plant fibre strands, and there is a headdress at the back made of wood strips of bark tied together. Mask is on a mount.

Culture
West African
Material
wood, fibre, metal and paint
Made in
West Africa, Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ornament1373/74

Hollow, white-brown, dome-shaped object with four bands of carved, grey, double lines encompassing the circumference. The top of the dome features a carved sun-like shape, with grey lines and arrow-like shapes radiating from the circular centre.

Culture
West African
Material
gourd fruit and graphite mineral
Made in
Nigeria ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fly Whisk1373/71

Ornamented, gold leaf covered handle with a long tail of horse hair attached to it. Top of handle has a flared, circular knob upon which a carved, golden rooster sits. Hair is bound in red fabric with two bands of green string at the juncture with the handle.

Culture
West African
Material
wood, horse hair ?, gold metal and fibre
Made in
West Africa, Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ornament1373/55

Round, convex, white-brown carved and coloured object with a zigzag border encompassing it. The main body consists of a circle divided in a tic-tac-toe manner by two sets of parallel lines. The centre square has a diamond shape carved in it, with four more diamonds carved in the squares adjacent to the central diamond's four corners. The four corner squares in the tic-tac-toe arrangement each have a right angled chevron-shape carved so that, taken together, the four shapes appear to be the corners of a square. All of the shapes are coloured with double, grey, thick, pencil-like lines and are deeply carved, creating negative space around them. The top of the object features a protruding, angular design with two small carved circles and a small triangular hole at the apex.

Culture
West African
Material
gourd fruit and graphite mineral
Made in
Nigeria ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dance Wand1373/32

Dark brown wooden carving of a standing human figure. Figure wears a long, curved, tapering hat with rounded shapes carved down the centre. Figure's hands are clutched in front of its chest. Figure stands on a vertical handle-like base with a thicker, flared bottom.

Culture
West African
Material
wood, stain and fibre
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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