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Bracelet2960/28

Round bracelet, carved out of a single piece of ivory. The bracelet is thick, with a shiny and smooth surface. The sides are straight on the interior and rounded on the exterior. The ivory has many cracks on the surface that appear to encircle the bracelet, and have aged to a dark brown. They are mostly absent from the interior surface

Culture
West African ?
Material
elephant ivory
Made in
West Africa, Africa ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mask2960/24

Wooden mask with very long raffia hair. Mask has a narrow pointed chin with an open mouth, small nose, and closed eyes with narrow slits for viewing holes. The brows are pronounced, a double line, rounded, meeting above the nose. Brows and eyelids are emphasized with small, evenly placed pieces of a bronze coloured metal. At the temples are carved small rectangular protrusions and the forehead is covered with rounded lines of protruding dots, holding small metal nails as decoration. Above the forehead are three prow shaped protrusions, decorated at their top ridges with metal, and carved lines down the sides. The crown of the head from the temples is decorated with embedded cowrie shells. Holes pierce the wood below the cheeks, and a wide ring of wood surrounds the mask on sides and bottom. Attached to this are mounds of raffia palm strips that serve as hair.

Culture
Baule ?
Material
wood, palm leaf, cowrie shell and copper metal
Made in
West Africa, Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketK4.160 a-b

Circular basket with a domed lid (part b). Main design consists of orange and black with natural colour in a checkered pattern with striped borders. Domed lid has collapsed ridge near top.

Culture
West African ?
Material
grass and bark
Made in
West Africa, Africa ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Gold Dust Box2815/14 a-b

House-shaped box with lid. The cylindrical box is made of a thin sheet of brass that is joined at a seam held together with nails. It is decorated with a series of regularly spaced vertical lines, reminiscent of slats on a house. A removable cone shaped lid tops the box, and its rim fits snuggly over the box’s edge. The lid is decorated with patterns of lines of different lengths and at different angles, suggesting a straw roof. The top point of the box is bent slightly inward and has a small hole in the centre. The box sits on an attached bottomless base of the same construction. It has three rectangular holes cut into it, like small windows. It is also decorated with the slat motif.

Culture
West African ?
Material
brass metal
Made in
West Africa, Africa ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tusk2853/9

Elephant tusk. The tusk is curved, with a smooth, shiny surface. The colour gradates from a light yellow-white at the top open edge to a light brown near the tip. It is hollow and smooth on the inside, with thin walls and a wide opening at top that thickens and narrow toward the tip.

Culture
West African ?
Material
elephant tusk
Made in
West Africa, Africa ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tool2815/1

Implement with a long wooden handle holding a long, narrow, metal blade. The handle is slightly flared at the bottom and clubbed at the top. Through a hole in the clubbed portion, the metal blade has been inserted at a downward angle. It tapers to a sharp flair at the working end, and a cylinder of metal has been attached at the other to prevent the piece from slipping through the hole in the wood. A ring has been inserted into the flared end of the handle.

Culture
West African ?
Material
wood and iron metal
Made in
West Africa, Africa ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fertility Spoon2790/26

Large carved yellow wood spoon with a handle split into two branches that cross just above spoon and near top end, leaving an oval space between. The ends of the wood at the bottom crossing are blackened.

Culture
African
Material
wood
Made in
Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Container2790/25

Small round basketry-covered gourd container with round opening and a thin twined string handle.

Culture
African
Material
gourd fruit and palm fibre ?
Made in
Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure2790/24

Thin, elongated, blackened figure wearing a stack of brass neck rings. The bent arms are close to the body and there is a hole through the raised hands. The small square base is made from a different type of wood.

Culture
East African
Material
stain, wood and metal
Made in
East Africa, Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Camel Bag2790/29

Fringed camel bag with deep side pockets. Hemp-like fibres in shades of orange, red, brown, green and blue are woven into thick stripes and triangles outlined in white. Along the sides and tops of the pockets is a border made of orange strands, looped around multicoloured rag filler. Bundles of twined strands hang from the top, middle and bottom of pockets.

Culture
African ?
Material
cotton fibre, grass and dye
Made in
Africa ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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