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Figure2848/17

Figure with ornate robes seated on a large elaborate chair/throne. Figure's head and crown/hat are brown, while the body and chair/throne are painted bright colours. His robe is mostly red with gold embroidery. The chair has painted flower decorations on the front and sides. The figure's right arm is bent and there is a small hold in his hand, indicating he may have once held something. He holds a white object in his left hand.

Culture
Chinese
Material
wood and paint
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure2848/16

Figure of male soldier holding a rifle in his left hand. His right arm is hald out at his side, and there is a hole in his left hand, indicating it may have once held something. The figure is wearing a gold tunic, green pants and a white cap. He also wears black shoulder holsters crossed over his torso forming an X. He has a protruding nose and painted eyes, eyebrows, sideburns, and a mouth. He stands atop a red base.

Culture
Chinese
Material
wood and paint
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure2848/15

Female figure holding an infant in her right hand and a white scarf or cloth in her left. The female figure is wearing pink pants, green earrings, and a gold and red dress adorned with a green and white collar. The infant is wearing a gold dress and red pants. Both figures have painted eyes, eyebrows and mouths. The woman stands atop a rectangular red base. Label attached to bottom of base.

Culture
Chinese
Material
wood and paint
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure2848/12

Male figure dressed in gold sits astride a white horse. Right arm is bent and the hand rests on the side of the horse's head and holds a small red object. Left hand rests at the figure's side and also holds a small red object. Rider wears a red and gold hat, has a protruding nose, and painted eyes, eyebrows, sideburns and lips. The horse has a painted mane, eyes, mouth, and reigns and sits atop a red base. Chinese characters are painted on the back of the base.

Culture
Chinese
Material
wood and paint
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure2848/10

Seated figure of the Tao monkey diety Sun Hou Tze. Figure has hands clenched into fists and resting on knees. It has rounded eyes and a protruding nose, wears an ornate hat/headdress and its robe has a long tie which hangs visibly between the legs. The base is part of the chair which the figure sits on.

Culture
Chinese
Material
wood and paint
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Plaque2848/44

Rectangular wooden plaque mounted on two red wooden stands. The painted scene depicts a male and female elder each holding two children. They both wear brown robes and each hold a baby dressed in green and a baby dressed in red. The female elder wears green earrings and the male has white eyebrows and a white beard. They stand beneath a traditional Chinese canopy with Chinese charaters above them. There are floral decorations on either side of them. They stand on a bridge? and below them is a body of water with a figure dressed in red and green sitting in a yellow boat holding a paddle. The back of the plaque is unpainted.

Culture
Chinese
Material
wood and paint
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basketry2928/6 a-b

Glass rectangular bottle covered in light brown basketry, with decorative red, purple and green horizontal patterns. The top tapers in slightly at the neck, which is cylindrical. The bottle has a woven lid (part b) with small red circle on top, in the centre. The base is covered with plain woven cedar bark.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
glass, swamp grass, dye and cedar bark
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basketry Tray2868/8

Rectangular tray with cross patterns. The tray has a low wall around the perimeter. The rim of this wall has false braiding around it. The tray is primarily yellow and demonstrates closed twining. There are also imbricated dark brown and red brown elements. In the base of the tray the imbricated motif is formed from small squares formed by five smaller squares; there is a smaller square in each corner and one in the centre. On either end of the tray, seven of the five-part squares meet at an acute angle which points into the centre of the tray. In the centre of the tray, two lines formed from seven of the five-part squares bisect each other diagonally. On the exterior of the walls of the tray, the imbricated dark brown and red brown material forms triangles made of small squares. The longest sides of the tray each have four triangles adorning them and the shorter sides have three triangles. The red brown triangles and dark brown triangles are placed next to each other to form a pattern. The artist’s name is written in pen on the bottom of the tray.

Culture
Coast Salish: Homalco
Material
cedar root and cedar wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Spear Head2919/5

Ceremonial dance spear head. The long wooden head is made of a single piece of wood, with both sides carved into 6 narrow, protruding, downward pointing blades. The spear’s tip is long and pointed while the head is wide and carved through with a central line and two long holes on either side. Feathers are attached to the head by thongs. The body of the piece, both top and bottom, is painted with white cross-hatching and rust coloured circles.

Culture
Tiwi
Material
wood, feather, fibre and paint
Made in
Tiwi Islands, Northern Territory, Australia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mask2872/5

Mask of a bird face, with a jutting, pointed blue beak, pink mouth slightly open and red tongue peeking out. Eye holes are bored through the wood under the round pink and black pupils and a red comb sits between the eyes. The face is covered with painted feathers each in 3 shades of blue. A headdress surrounds the forehead, with a protruding carving of a small bird at centre just above the comb, and large decorated portions on the sides of the head. The inside of the mask is concave and unpainted with a gold sticker attached to the forehead area.

Culture
Javanese
Material
wood and paint
Made in
Java, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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