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Model Canoe1505/2

Model canoe. Small light brown wooden canoe carved from a single piece of wood, that widens in the centre and tapers to squared off points at either end. The prow sits slightly higher than the stern. Each end has a curve from top to bottom but the stern has a much more pronounced curve. The surface is undecorated.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
spruce wood
Made in
Yakutat, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bowl1570/28

A brown oval bowl in the shape of a fish with a carved tail and head which has blue inset eyes, a mouth, and gills. One side is carved with three human stick-figures. The other side is carved with a C-shape that has a horizontal line extending from the middle and with a horizontal line that has six perpendicular lines along the top from the end nearer to the head.

Culture
Arctic America
Material
wood and glass
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basketry Pouch1570/38 a-b

Two small light brown basketry woven pieces with horizontal rows of dots and a design along the middle and a rounded bottom. The first piece (part a) has a design on one side which consists of an orange centre through which pink lines create an x-shape that has pink points in between each of these four lines, and the other side has a similar design with a white centre and blue lines and points. The second piece (part b) has a design that consists of a pink, a blue, and a pink horizontal row along the middle all around the piece.

Culture
Aleut
Material
grass and fibre
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mask1570/54 a-y

The brown wood mask (part a) is a concavely curved elongated oval which tapers to a point at both the top and bottom. At the centre of the mask, there is carved a small round face with a forehead painted black, circular pupils cut out of the oval eyes, two small cut out nostrils, and an open cut out downward turned red mouth. Each pointed end of the mask is painted black, and there are black semi-triangles along the four sides of the central round face. There is a black-painted fin-like protrusion on each side of the top point of the mask, and a wood protrusion connected to each side of the bottom point of the mask with a metal wire. Many pegs (parts b-y) are inserted along the sides of the mask. The mask is connected to two curved wood sticks surrounding the mask in an oval formation by skin and fibre bands.

Culture
Yup'ik
Material
wood, skin, fibre, paint and metal
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Portrait Mask1570/55

A relatively flat brown wood mask with soft curves around the cheeks, a low lip line with the slightly open mouth, horizontally curved slits for the eyes, black upraised eyebrows, and a flat elongated nose with the nostrils cut out. Black paint for the moustache and goatee. Small loop of string through the top of the head.

Culture
Inupiaq
Material
wood and paint
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Story Knife1570/2

A lightly coloured piece with a blade and a handle decorated with carved lines painted black. The blade has two lines going across the top with seven dotted circles equally spaced alongside. Two other shorter lines goe across the bottom only halfway along the blade where they join into a partial arrow point. The handle is carved into an bird with eyes.

Culture
Yup'ik
Material
walrus tusk
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headdress1060/45

Small circular-shaped beaded headdress with beaded shell fringe and a long chin strap made of two interwoven beaded strands with alternating colours of orange, blue, red, green, white and pink. In the centre and on the inside of the main part of headdress is a small circular-shaped patch of brown coloured skin. On the outside, starting at the top of the headdress is a central orange bead with three bands of vertically beaded rows extending outwards with alternating grey, brown, red and blue coloured beads. Two small skin loops are found on each side of the headdress.

Culture
Alutiiq ?
Material
glass, fibre, plastic ? and rawhide skin
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Belt1060/32

Beaded belt consists of nine four-strand sections with alternating white coloured beaded sections and red coloured beaded sections with a blue beaded section in the centre. Each section is connected by a vertically-placed yellow tusk(?) bead. To add to the design, there are two small black beads at the beginning and end of each section. Shorter vertically-placed yellow-coloured walrus tusk(?) beads are found at both ends of the belt to connect ends of each of the four strands.

Culture
Alutiiq ?
Material
glass, fibre and walrus tusk ?
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bag Handle1570/8

A small and long white-yellow coloured walrus tusk piece with brown-black coloured designs. The piece is wider in the centre and the two ends taper to a squared-off point. Both sides of the object have the same black coloured design: in the centre of the piece just below a raised carved handle, is a large circular design with a doted centre. Outside the circle at four different corners are four circles with doted centres that are each connected to the larger circle by a single line. Extending from both sides of the centre circle are a series of vertical lines with small squares, a single circle with a doted centre and four lines that extend from four of its corners, a series of closely spaced vertical lines, a rectangular patch of cross-hatching, and a series of spaced vertical lines, and two small circles with doted centres.

Culture
Yup'ik
Material
walrus tusk and paint ?
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bag Handle1570/5

A small and long white-yellow coloured walrus tusk piece with black coloured designs. The piece is wider in the centre and the two ends taper to a squared-off point. Both sides of the object have the same black coloured design: in the centre of the piece just below a carved hole is a large circular design with three concentric circles within. Outside the larger centred circle and at each end of the piece are four circles with doted centres on each corner of the circle. These are seperated by two circles with doted centres in between two black coloured lines. Circles with doted centres line the outer edge of the piece.

Culture
Yup'ik
Material
walrus tusk and paint ?
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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