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Bowl3383/9

Long narrow bowl with a carved figures at each end. Extending from each end is a carved human head wearing an oval ring headdress with a small sphere inside. Each face is elongated, has a nose ornament and large ears on the sides. The bowl itself is the body for each figure, with their hands and feet along the rim. The exterior is carved with concentric ring designs. The bowl is painted white except for a red band underneath one head, and the carved loops at each end which are brown on the outer edge, and deep red within.

Culture
Asmat
Material
wood and paint
Made in
Atsy, Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bow2948/137 a-b

Wooden bow. The body of the bow has a carved circular bulge or platform at one end where the woven looped end-piece of the bow string rests. Attached to the bow limbs are two small circular rings of woven fibres set slightly in from the ends, which are carved into points. The bowstring has only one woven loop, and the other end of the bowstring is misshapen and bends upwards to a broken point where the other loop would have existed.

Culture
Asmat
Material
wood and plant fibre
Made in
Atsy, Papua, Indonesia ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dagger2948/31

Bone dagger. The body of the dagger is formed from a cassowary leg bone, partially cut to expose the hollow interior and shaped into a fine point. The head of the bone is wrapped with a woven plant fibre casing, continuing into five thin strands of woven fibre. These each attach to two groups of blue seeds attached to short grey and long, fine black feathers. The woven casing around the thick end of the dagger has three painted bands of orange pigment. At the bottom point is a small incised cut running in a band across the bone. The head of the bone is red, with the remainder of bone yellow-brown to brown.

Culture
Asmat
Material
cassowary bone, cassowary feather, cotton fibre, seed and pigment
Made in
Atsy, Papua, Indonesia ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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