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ShawlAf461

Rectangular shaped shawl woven warp-faced with fringe on both ends. The design consists of a red background with twenty-five rows of green continuous tree-like geometric pattern of laid in wefts. The back is lined with light pink cotton.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre and dye
Made in
Okene, Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thorn CarvingAf339

Rectangular shed with open front and plywood floor, half sidewalls, back wall, and roof. Outside of roof and walls are covered with variegated thorn shavings. Large upright posts at left and right front support sloping roof. Each post has a large carved, ritual human face suspended from the top. Inside, there are figures representing people. Three ritual human figures and two large carved ritual heads are leaning against the centre of the rear wall. Gun hangs above the left figure while two others lean against the inner sides of the front poles. Three ritual carved human heads are stacked inside the right front post and one rests on the rear of the right sidewall. Facing ritual figures, there is a sitting man with a long hair or a headdress, clothed, and hands extended. At his right, there is an animal with a rope around his neck. Behind him in a semi-circle, there are nine men with bare heads, forearms, and feet. They are wearing tunics and pants. They are facing the ritual figures. At the right rear, there is standing a drummer playing an hourglass drum. Clothes, parts of guns, animal, some ritual heads, parts of ritual figures, and drumhead are light yellow-brown. Human skin, heads, and parts of ritual figures are dark brown. Some carved heads are light red-brown.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
egun thorn, atum thorn, rice adhesive, stain and wood
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thorn CarvingAf435

Standing figure representing a woman holding her arms above her head. There is a head ring and a broken pot at her feet. She is wearing a wrap-around skirt. Her head, limbs, and torso, and the pot are dark brown. The skirt and the head ring are are light yellow-brown. The base is light brown wood.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
egun thorn, rice adhesive, atum thorn and wood
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thorn CarvingAf434

Two figures representing bareheaded males sitting on cylindrical stools facing each other. A black and white checkered board is balancing on their knees with three dark and three light checkers on the board. Clothing is light yellow-brown. Limbs, heads, and stools are dark brown. Base is of light brown wood.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
atum thorn, ink, wood, rice adhesive and egun thorn
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thorn CarvingAf433

Figure representing a male standing with a gun in the vertical position with the stock facing upwards. He is wearing a shirt and short trousers. Head, limbs, and part of the gun are dark brown. Clothing and part of gun are light yellow-brown. The base is light brown wood.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
egun thorn, wood, rice adhesive and atum thorn
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thorn CarvingAf424

Two figures representing people. One is standing, slightly bent with a cylindrical drum on a strap around the neck, and wearing a hat, a short-sleeved shirt, and knee-length trousers with small sticks in both hands. Other figure is standing on the head and forearms wearing knee-length trousers and legs bent forward from hips. Shirt, trousers, and drum head is light yellow-brown. Figures and body of drum are dark brown. Hat is light red-brown. The small sticks are light brown wood. The base is light brown wood stained brown.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
rice adhesive, wood, egun thorn, atum thorn, stain and fibre
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thorn CarvingAf423

Three figures representing women. Two women are pounding yams with a double-headed pestle and a single-headed one. The third is stirring cooking yams with a long handled spoon. Two figures are wearing knee-length skirts and tops while a third is wearing a skirt. Two have similar flat hairdos while the other has a conically shaped hairdo. The yams are in a mortar sitting on the ground and in a pottery cooking bowl elevated over a fire. Head, limbs, and cooking pot are dark brown. Clothing, pestle, mortar, and spoon are light yellow-brown. The yams are light red-brown. All are glued to a light brown base covered with earth.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
atum thorn, wood, rice adhesive and egun thorn
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thorn CarvingAf422

Figure representing a man wearing a sleeveless shirt and knee-length pants is climbing a palm tree with an adze on his left shoulder. He is being supported by a rope belt. Palm nuts on the tree and on the base which is plywood covered by variegated thorn shavings. Heads, limbs, adze, and palm tree are dark brown. Clothing is light yellow-brown. Palm nuts are light red-brown.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
atum thorn, rice adhesive, stain, wood and egun thorn
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thorn CarvingAf421

A carved scene of a tree trunk covered with thorns and having a five-rung ladder set against the side. There is a bareheaded man on the third rung with a hatchet over his right shoulder. A man with a conical hat is on the ground holding the right side of the ladder and with a machete in his left hand. A basket is sitting on the ground to the left of the ladder. The men are wearing short-sleeved loose shirts and knee- length pants. The ground is covered with chips and shavings. Shirts, pants, machete, and basket are light yellow-brown. Heads, limbs, and hatchet are dark brown. Man's hat is light red-brown. The ladder is light brown wood. The base is covered in variegated thorn bush shavings.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
egun thorn, rice adhesive, atum thorn, wood and stain
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BottleAf454 a-b

Rawhide bottle (part a) with spherical base and elongated neck. Lid (part b) fits over outer edges of upper neck. The lower half of the base is covered with brown haired cowhide with white patches. Upper half has five narrow strips of cowhide alternating white and brown, four of which are linear, with the fifth and uppermost curvilinear. The uppermost linear strip is detached at end close to handle. Two looped handles are at opposite side of upper half of base. Base of neck has six linear strips of alternating brown and white cowhide with brown and white linear strip at upper end, and looped handle at top.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
rawhide skin, adhesive and cow skin
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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