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Model Totem Pole3260/14

Small carved argillite model pole. Figures from base to top: an eagle sitting on a whale, holding onto the dorsal fin; a frog and a man, with the man holding the frog tongue with both hands; a frog and an eagle on the top. Artist inscription on base.

Culture
Haida
Material
argillite stone
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model Totem Pole3260/6

Small carved argillite model pole consisting of two figures: a sitting bear on the bottom with a perched eagle above. The pole has a smooth, flat back and stands on a flat base. The base is rounded off on the front corners. Artist inscription on back.

Culture
Haida
Material
argillite stone
Made in
Skidegate, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Moccasin3203/12

Single moccasin, made of moose hide, with glass beadwork. Toe panel has a beaded flower in bright blue, with green vines and bulbs in gold and red. Panel is edged with red beads. Pull tab attached at top of heel. Unlined.

Culture
Kaska Dena ?
Material
skin, glass and cotton fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Leister3204/16

Leister type spear made of wood, bone, sinew, steel. Handle is a long, straight, squared rod of wood with a flat butt. At top a thick wrapping of rawhide with hair connects handle to spear head. Head is made of two curving outer arms of horn, thick at top where each holds a metal spike over a central piece of bone barbed at its end.

Culture
Inuit
Material
wood, rawhide skin, horn ?, bone and metal
Made in
Holman, Northwest Territories, Canada and Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Moccasins3204/15 a-b

Pair of beaded calf-height rawhide moccasins. Upper portion is made of thin leather, open at front, and can be wrapped around the calf and tied by long leather strings threaded around the ankle, emerging to either side of a narrow tongue. Yellow flowers with blue stems and green leaves are beaded around the calf, with a line of blue and red or yellow beads surrounding three edges of the calf flap. Toe comes to a point, and is heavily beaded in a wedge pattern of squares in white, blue, red, and yellow. An ink pattern guide can be seen around the toe stitching on both shoes. Both have hard leather soles.

Culture
Blackfoot: Piikani
Material
deer skin, glass and ink
Made in
Brocket, Alberta, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Partial Moccasins3204/14 a-b

Pair of replacement soles for moccasins. Soles are made of hardened hide, wide at toe, narrowing toward heel.

Culture
Blackfoot: Piikani
Material
rawhide skin
Made in
Brocket, Alberta, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Moccasins3204/13 a-b

Pair of beaded moccasins. Shoes are made of soft, pliable hide with a stiff sole sewn on bottom. Ankles are high, folded over and sewn into a double layer, and a short tongue emerges at front and rests on foot. These are edged with yellow and red beads. Toe of shoe is rounded and heavily beaded in a large half circle of yellow and red, outlined in dark blue, with translucent beads. The pattern is mimicked on the top side of the tongue.

Culture
Blackfoot: Piikani
Material
rawhide skin, glass and cotton fibre
Made in
Brocket, Alberta, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3204/12 a-b

Birchbark basket (part a) with decorated lid (part b). Basket is round with straight sides, base and rim separate pieces of bark that have been stitched on with root ties. A scalloped bark ring has been similarly stitched on, beneath the root-wrapped lip. Lid construction is similar to basket, with a strip of birch for rim and a top piece stitched on with root. Lid design is a flower pattern in an ‘x’ shape made from dyed root. Underside of lid has a birch lining, covering the bottom root stitches.

Culture
Chipewyan
Material
birch bark, grass and dye
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Spoon3204/10

Wooden spoon with painted design. Large spoon has a long shallow bowl flowing into a wide, slightly curved handle. Bowl has a formline style sea creature painted on the interior in green and red with black outlines, and tall fin at top. At distal end of handle is an eye with a leaf shaped motif. On back of handle is written in paint “Port Simpson BC”.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bookend Figure3204/6

Unpainted, carved bird attached to thick rectangular base. Bird is in a sitting position, clawed feet to front, wings at sides, large head with a prominent curved beak and flat top pitched slightly forward. Eyes are blank circles. Wings have a suggestion of feathers and openwork patterning that continues onto back where wings end in vertical lines. "Neel" is carved into back at bottom. A pair with 3204/5.

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