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Jellyfish Sculpture3483/2

Jellyfish figure made from reclaimed plastic fishing nets. White woven hood with large oval arm hanging from bottom centre, surrounded by thin tentacles. Top edge of hood decorated with orange circles, bottom edge with dark pink circles. Tentacles braided with strands of orange and dark purple plastic. Arm made up of looped strands, braids and balls of fibre, with additional disc-shaped decorations towards the bottom. Orange and dark purple plastic woven throughout arm. Hood shape formed with an internal metal frame.

Culture
Torres Strait Islander
Material
plastic and metal
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sweater3500/1

Hand-knitted Cowichan-style pullover sweater, with collar. Design consists of grey bands with alternating dark brown and cream stripes in between. White, horizontal dotted line through grey bands, snowflake-like pattern through dark brown and cream stripes. Collar is plain grey. Cuffs and bottom edge bordered with a wide light brown band, trimmed with diagonal lines. Lines done in cream and dark brown. Brown cord looped through back of neck.

Culture
Coast Salish: Quwutsun'
Material
wool fibre, dye and fibre
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Squid Sculpture3483/3

Small squid figure made from reclaimed plastic fishing nets. It has a long grey and turquoise mantle, with two light green and white fins along the sides. Edges of fins bordered with turquoise and orange strands. Head is white and turquoise with large, black circular eyes on either side. Eyes lined with dark blue and dark yellow twine. Overtop the head and mantle are curvilinear motifs, done in dark yellow plastic. Has a round, open orange and white mouth. Extending from the base of the head, surrounding the mouth, are eight arms and two tentacles. Tentacles are tipped with orange diamond shapes. All appendages are white with turquoise, dark blue, green and orange braided throughout.

Culture
Torres Strait Islander
Material
plastic
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Our Ancestors' Trail: Real Camo3491/1

Lightbox photograph. Large digital photographic print mounted inside a painted, wood-framed lightbox, painted black. Print depicts three figures wearing grey camouflage on a mountainside. The mountainside stretches from the top left to the bottom right corner of the horizontal print. In the other half of the image, the cloudy sky is shown and another trapezoid-shaped mountain is visible in the background. The three figures are spaced evenly along the mountainside and are shown in profile. The figure higher up the slope is sitting with knees bent, head down and arms circling their knees. Figure in middle is most in focus, shown kneeling on the ground, head bent forward, with their arms stretched out in front. The figure towards the bottom of the slope is sitting with their back to the camera, with their head tilted down, leaning back on their right arm. The mountainside is covered in an assortment of grey, brown and white rocks, and pieces of obsidian.

Culture
Tahltan
Material
wood, plastic, paper, ink and metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeaddressA3664

Tamer's headdress. Cedar bark headdress in the form of a rounded beak: two semi-circular flaps at front representing a beak with two long oval shapes that sit on top of beak, a hooked nose that projects out over the beak. Bunched cedar strips are attached at the top of the headdress frame with thick white string, and white string is wrapped around the base of the frame at the back. (Photos show mask without the nose piece; nose repaired in 2021.)

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
cedar bark, wood and cotton fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Silkscreened Bag3481/1

Canvas drawstring bag with repeating silkscreen-printed thunderbird motif. The thunderbird bodies are forward facing, with heads in profile. They are made of black designs with red highlights throughout. Black band border along bottom edge with alternating triangle motif. Bottom triangles are black. Top row has black triangular outlines; the rest of the space is naturally coloured. Black drawstring ties are on the front and back centre of bag, along the top edge. Holes for ties outlined with brass-coloured metal. Seam along back centre. Interior lined with clear plastic. Paper label with design and artist information affixed to base.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
cotton fibre, ink, nylon fibre, paper, metal and plastic
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dance Screen3474/1

Woven cedar bark screen with painted design in a horizontal orientation. Image is of two identical thunderbirds, bodies facing front and heads facing each other. Thunderbirds are outlined in black with formline designs throughout interior. Designs done in black with green and red-orange highlights. Each thunderbird has a curved horn on the back of their head and semi-circular shaped protrusion on top of their head. Thunderbirds have downward pointing wings and legs widely spread outward. Wings and tails have three feathers each and they are filled with dots. Wings have blue-grey dots, tail feathers have green. Main bodies are filled with red-orange dots, surrounding central designs, and head filled with blue-grey dots. Borders around all edges of screen are made of dyed(?) dark green-black strips of bark. The screen is edged with wide strips of bark.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
dye, cedar bark and paint
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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There Is Hope, If We Rise3451/12

Poster from a set of 12; caption says “Decolonize”. Front of poster is beige with an abstract design, consisting of formline elements, overtop. Border and negative space, between designs, is beige. Motifs are in the upper three quarters of the image, and are done in blue, blue-grey, dark blue and red. Bottom section is a dark blue band, with the “Decolonize” caption along the top edge and a row of ovoids below. Designs and text are done in blue-grey. Back of poster is white, with the artist statement and series information typed in black ink.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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There Is Hope, If We Rise3451/10

Poster from a set of 12; caption says “Confront”. Front of poster is beige with an abstract design, consisting of formline elements, overtop. Border and negative space, between designs, is beige. Motifs are in the upper three quarters of the image, and are done in blue, blue-grey, dark blue and red. Bottom section is a dark blue band, with the “Confront” caption along the top edge and a row of ovoids below. Designs and text are done in blue-grey. Back of poster is white, with the artist statement and series information typed in black ink.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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There Is Hope, If We Rise3451/8

Poster from a set of 12; caption says “Challenge Stereotypes”. Front of poster is beige with an abstract design, consisting of formline elements, overtop. Border and negative space, between designs, is beige. Motifs are in upper three quarters of the image, and are done in blue, blue-grey, dark blue and red. Bottom section is a dark blue band, with the “Challenge” caption along the top edge and “Stereotypes” along the bottom. Short row of small ovoids in between words. Designs and text are done in blue-grey. Back of poster is white, with the artist statement and series information typed in black ink.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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