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Drawing3223/61 a-b

On the front-side of part a is a poem, written in pencil, in both Nuu-chah-nulth and English. The poem on part a is horizontally oriented. To the right of the poem is the machine-printed descriptive information for the drawing printed on the reverse-side of the poem. On the reverse-side of part a is the left half of a whale print by the artist. The whale is a blue-grey colour. An open, red human-like hand is depicted at the end of the pectoral fin. A being with a yellow eye, red mouth, and grey tongue is positioned in the centre of the whale's body. On the front-side of part b is a story, written in pencil, about a girl singing a tsiikyak and then jumping off of a cliff. The story is written vertically on the paper. The reverse-side of the story is the right half of the whale print. The right half of the whale mirrors the left half (part a) with the exception that the red human-like hand on the right half grips a black raven. Printed in the bottom of part b, near the whale's tail, is the artist's signature and two lines of text.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hupacasath
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3223/42

A series of pencil drawings on a white bookmark. The front-side of the bookmark is a compilation of several drawings, all horizontally oriented. The background is coloured a light grey. Drawn extending outward from the left edge of the bookmark is a dark grey tower-shape surrounded by an arch with a dotted outline. Beneath and to the right of the arch shape is an inverted creature. Directly to the right of the arch is a carrying pole(?) with a segment of whale flesh with the dorsal fin still attached; a crescent is drawn on the flesh. A rope with six feathers(?) is draped over the dorsal fin. Above the carrying pole is a frayed rope with a harpoon attached to its left end. Four side-by-side fishing lures(?) are drawn extending from the top edge of the right half of the bookmark. Underneath them a seal-like feast dish is drawn. In the bottom right corner, a diagonal line with a dash in the centre creates a triangle with the corner; within the triangle is a dark grey right trapezoid and a two dash wide vertical line. The reverse-side of the bookmark is machine-printed in blue ink on a white background. At the top is the bookstore's logo, three books leaning against the letters "AB." Listed below is the bookstore's commercial information including the bookstore's name, "Ascendant Books Ltd."

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hupacasath
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3223/46

A pencil drawing and a poem on a dark tan coloured bookmark. The front-side of the bookmark is a hand-drawn image of a human-like being and a hand-printed poem. At the top of the front-side, a grey star is drawn. Below, the face of a human-like being is directed downwards towards the bottom of the bookmark. The being has a large curled nose, thick lips, a pierced ear, a heavily shaded brow ridge, and a flat cone-shaped forehead decorated with small asterisks. A snake-like arm(?) extends from the being's forehead towards its nose; at the end of the arm is a human-like hand with an ovoid. A dashed line extends from the being's hand, through the lines of text, to the drawing at the bottom edge. At the bottom, an unclosed ring with rounded ends encircles a creature with a wavy tongue. Between the two drawings is the handwritten poem. The reverse-side of the bookmark is machine printed in black ink. At the top, an image of two people sitting and reading with their legs on a window ledge, is printed between two block pyramids. Below is the bookstore's name, "The Corner Bookstore," and commercial information.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hupacasath
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3223/30

A pencil drawing and poem on a bookmark. The bookmark and drawing are both vertically oriented. On the front-side of the bookmark, an image of an abstract whale with a mask, is depicted in pencil. At the top, an image of a decorated mask, taken from a book, is glued to the bookmark; two lines of pencil continue the contours of the mask onto the paper. An active blowhole is drawn below the mask along the right edge of the page. A dorsal fin, decorated with a thick dark grey border, three unshaded ovals, and two unshaded tower shapes, is drawn below the blowhole. The body of the whale is decorated with a thick border of grey pencil, three uncoloured ovals, two ovoids, and one shaded tower-shape. A small human skull is drawn upside down in the largest uncoloured oval. The whale's tail is drawn near the left edge of the paper; it extends outwards from the body and is decorated with an unshaded tower-shape with a grey circle at the top. Below the drawing is the poem, "First, under the sea Then, over the land Into the sky Finally, the long journey And then the fall back to Nisma..." written in pencil. The reverse-side of the bookmark is a machine-printed image of a crowd of people gathered in front of a brown bookstore on a winter's night. The phrase, "BOOKS for EVERYBODY," is printed in indigo at the bottom of the page.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hupacasath
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3223/35

A drawing of a killer whale on a lime green coloured bookmark. The bookmark and drawing are both vertically oriented. On the front-side of the bookmark is a hand-drawn image of a whale in black pen ink, drawn in an arch. The head of the whale is parallel with the left edge of the paper. A thick black border outlines the shape of the head; the interior of the head is lime green with a black ovoid-shaped eye in the centre. Teeth, drawn as angled lines, line the upper jaw. At the back of the head, an exaggerated circular blowhole releases air. To the right of the blowhole is an enlarged dorsal fin decorated with a thick black border, a large green arch, and an ovoid. The left pectoral fin is positioned parallel to the head and the right edge of the paper; it is decorated with a black border, an ovoid, and a green arch. Below the pectoral fin, the profile view of the tail fluke is drawn; the fluke is embellished with a black border, a large ovoid, a green arch, and a small ovoid. A single curvy black line extends from the top of the dorsal fin to the bottom right corner of the bookmark. The reverse-side of the bookmark is machine-printed in black ink. At the top is the bookstore name, "The Phoenix Books," and the store's logo, a cartoon image of a phoenix rising from fire. Below is the bookstore's commercial information.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hupacasath
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3223/59

A pencil drawing on a bookmark. The front-side of the bookmark depicts a hand-drawn image of a bird(?) on an off-white background. The drawing is vertically oriented with the hole punch being the bottom of the bookmark; at the top of the bookmark are five inverted lines of machine-printed text pertaining to copyright. The bird is drawn between the text and the hole punch. The beak of the bird is open and the tongue is extended outwards. The tongue is humped in the centre and a large ovoid is drawn within the hump. Three feathers, two completely shaded in with pencil and one with a criss-cross pattern, line the lower mandible. The eye is surrounded by an oval with a criss-cross pattern. The wing of the bird extends from the base of the head towards the bottom of the bookmark. Two arch-like feathers, decorated with a criss-cross pattern, line the top of the wing; three arch-like feathers with a criss-cross pattern line the underside of the wing. The interior of the wing is embellished with an inverted creature, an unshaded tower-shape(?), and an unshaded oval with a cross. Drawn to the left of the wing is the bird's leg and talon; two arch-like feathers with a criss-cross pattern are drawn at the top of the leg and an unshaded oval with a cross decorates the interior of the leg. The artist's signature, a "M" with a line through it and two dots, is positioned in the bottom right corner of the drawing. The reverse-side of the bookmark is a machine-printed image of a cartoon brown mouse(?) looking through a filing cabinet with the words "I FINALLY GOT IT ALL TOGETHER...BUT I FORGOT WHERE I PUT IT," printed in black ink.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hupacasath
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3223/37

A drawing on a bookmark. Depicted on the front-side of the bookmark is a vertically oriented whale and human skull; the images, drawn in blue ink, are set against a white background. The whale is portrayed as swimming headlong into the water. The whale is decorated with criss-crossing assemblages of blue line patterns in varying lengths and thicknesses; a thick blue line extends from the whale's belly to the tail flukes. A stream of air, drawn as blue dots and dashes, exits the whale's blowhole. Between the whale's eye and the thick blue line is a human skull; the interior of the skull is uncoloured but the eye cavities are filled in with the same crisscrossing line pattern as on the whale's body. Braille indentations from the reverse-side of the bookmark are visible on the front-side near the whale's air stream. The reverse-side of the bookmark is machine-printed in blue ink. Along the right edge is braille writing. At the bottom of the bookmark, in white, is the Canadian National Institute for the Blind logo and a line of text.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hupacasath
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3223/19

A drawing on a tan coloured bookmark. The front-side of the bookmark is a horizontally oriented image of a whale drawn in black ink. The whale has a bird-like head with a large curved beak, a thin tongue and a thin, flat lower jaw. The whale's blowhole is decorated with an inverted face; air exits the blowhole and trails the length of the whale's body. The pectoral fin is wide and is mostly coloured in with black ink; the fin is embellished with a creature with an eye-shape(?) and teeth. The dorsal fin is decorated with an ovoid positioned between two tower-shapes. A small circle enclosed by a larger circle, is positioned on the underbelly of the whale between the pectoral fin and the tail. The base of the tail is decorated with a creature with an eye-shape(?) and teeth; each tail fluke is embellished with a thin tower-shape. The reverse-side of the bookmark is machine-printed in brown ink. Printed on the far left is a crest with an owl perched on an open book. The remainder of the bookmark lists commercial information including the bookstore's name, "Gallowglass Books Ltd."

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hupacasath
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3223/27

A drawing on a tan coloured bookmark. The front-side of the bookmark is a vertically oriented, hand-drawn image of a killer whale with an exaggerated dorsal fin and pectoral flipper. The body of the whale is positioned in the lower half of the bookmark with the tail curved around so it nearly touches the whale's head. The dorsal fin, decorated with an ovoid and four tower-shapes(?), extends from the middle to the top left corner of the bookmark. An elongated diamond surrounding the eye, a cross near the nose, and large triangular teeth extending from the upper jaw, decorate the whale's head. The blowhole releases air; the air, drawn as swirls of dashed lines, extends from the middle of the bookmark to the top left corner. The pectoral flipper is embellished with a wide arch filled with a crisscross pattern and two ovoids. Between the pectoral flipper and the dorsal fin is a lightly drawn inverted human skull. The artist's signature, a "M" with a line drawn through it and two dots, is placed at the bottom of bookmark. The reverse-side of the bookmark is machine-printed in black ink. At the top, there is an image of a man in overalls reading a book, below is a quote from Sara Nelson, and the bookstore's commercial information including the store's name, "Literati Books," location and phone number.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hupacasath
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3223/49

A drawing on a whitish grey coloured bookmark. One end of the bookmark is cut at a forty-five degree angle. The front-side of the bookmark is horizontally oriented and is hand-drawn in pencil. The central image on the front-side of the bookmark is a beaver lying on its back in an underwater log dam. The logs surrounding the beaver are embellished with criss-crossing assemblages of grey stripes. The artist's signature is on the bottom-right-side of the image. The reverse-side of the bookmark is machine-printed in dark brown ink. On the left-side, an image of an enclosed human is printed alongside the artist's signature, a "M" with a line drawn through it and a dot on the top-left and bottom-right of the line. The centre and right-side of the bookmark lists commercial information including the agency's name, "Old Ways Consulting."

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hupacasath
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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