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Coast Indian Suite2980/6

Panel 6 in a series of 20 panels. Drawing of a ceremonial headdress with the face of a bear. The face is blue, with large round eyes topped by heavy curving brows, a short forehead and rounded ears. The snout protrudes and features large round nostrils. The mouth is open with a protruding tongue and two square teeth far back in the mouth. A clawed blue paw peeks out from under the mask. Feathers, hair, a thin rope and a pink ribbon drape from behind the bear’s ears, falling to the side and bottom. The mask sits in a shallow landscape of foliage and rocks.

Culture
Canadian
Made in
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Coast Indian Suite2980/4

Panel 4 in a series of 20 panels. A large eagle is drawn in the top centre of the image, with wings spread. The head is turned to the side and slightly raised, showing a large round eye and sharp hooked beak. Wings and torso are decorated in formline style. Feet extend toward the surface of a river running through the drawing from top middle to bottom. Beneath the water is a large stylized fish with split tail, and formline designs on back and face. A long orange fish swims across the image. In the background is a dense forest of vined trees alongside the river. Covered with plexi frame.

Culture
Canadian
Made in
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Coast Indian Suite2980/1

Panel 1 in a series of 20 panels. Drawing of a deerskin war shirt. The shoulders of the shirt fill the drawing at the top; the neck is squared and sewn to the front with thread giving way at the right seam. Fringe hangs along the shirt’s right side top to bottom, with similar on parts of the left. The shirt appears to be arm-less. Images on the shirt are in traditional patterns showing birds, animals and whales in red, white and black formline. Covered with plexi frame.

Culture
Canadian
Made in
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mat3021/6

Patterned, woven, rectangular mat with a square weave in a large checkered pattern of alternating brown, yellow and dual-coloured squares. The brown on the back is considerably muted. A hem on the two long sides has been folded over and incorporated into the back weave.

Culture
Polynesian
Material
grass ?
Made in
Pacific Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mat3021/5

Patterned, woven, rectangular mat with a square weave in a tight checkered pattern of natural and dyed brown grass in its centre. Long-side borders are made of the undyed grass only, which tighten into a herringbone pattern at edges. A looped fringe of alternating groups of black and yellow yarn is woven into all four edges. The backside of the mat is monotone.

Culture
Polynesian
Material
grass ? and wool fibre
Made in
Pacific Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mat3021/4

Patterned, woven, rectangular mat with a square weave in a small alternating checkered pattern of natural and dyed brown grass. Long-side borders are made of the undyed grass in a square weave that tightens into a thin strip of herringbone pattern at edges. A looped fringe of alternating black and yellow yarn is woven into all four edges. The backside of the mat is monotone.

Culture
Polynesian
Material
grass ? and wool fibre
Made in
Pacific Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mat3021/3

Patterned, woven, rectangular mat with a square weave in an alternating checked pattern of natural and dyed brown grass. The edges are finished by folding over each piece of grass, creating a line of small points along the long sides of the mat. These pieces are then woven into the pattern on the back, creating a distinguishable border.

Culture
Polynesian
Material
grass ?
Made in
Pacific Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3021/2

Basket in an open weave. Basket has a rectangular base, widening toward the mouth where the rim bends inward. The handle is thick and robustly woven, standing firm above the centre of the basket. It divides into two arms on each side which attach at the corners of the basket and are woven decoratively into the body and across the base. Each side of the basket has a checked decoration in red grass at centre.

Culture
Polynesian
Material
grass ?
Made in
Pacific Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3021/1

Basket in an open weave. Basket has a small rectangular base, widening toward the mouth where the rim bends slightly inward. The handle is thick and robustly woven, standing firm above the centre of the basket. It divides into two arms on each side near the basket’s rim, and these are woven into the body and across the base.

Culture
Polynesian
Material
grass ?
Made in
Pacific Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Masquerade Costume Bells2956/202 d-h

Set of five costume bells. Parts d, e, and f are iron cow bells with wood clappers. Each has a wide top loop that connects it to its leather strap. Part d has a brass buckle in a chevron in shape, with a single remaining prong. Silver metal studs secure the strap’s loop, 3 both above and below the buckle. Part e has a square buckle square made of iron wire. Several belt holes are pierced into the strap, and two rusted studs hold it together at back. Part f has a wide leather strap, dark brown-yellow in colour. Its oval buckle with a central prong is made of thin metal wire. Three belt holes pierce the leather. Parts g and h are identical: each has a small brass bell, wider at base, with brass clappers. They are attached by a leather thong to a large, wide strap. Small, square brass buckles with a central prong close belt at front and back. The ends of the belt are cut into three wide fringes, with the central feeding into the buckles. Brass studs decorate the belt front and back above the buckles. (Also, see mask: 2956/202 a, and costume: 2956/202 b-c.)

Culture
Portuguese
Material
skin, brass metal, iron metal, steel metal and wood
Made in
Podence, Braganca, Portugal
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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