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StaffIj13

Tall wooden staff with a straight, cylindrical staff and elaborately carved zoomorphic figures at the top and bottom; very top of staff is carved with a humanoid figure.

Culture
Cook Islanders
Material
wood
Made in
Cook Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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AxeC1197

One piece handle and blade with cord used to decorate the junction of the blade and the handle. The dark brown blade has a flat, elongated trapezoid shape with angled triangular lower sides that create an inward pointing triangle along the bottom middle. The junction in between the blade and the handle is lighter brown and covered with strips of braided plant material that cross over each other at various angles. The dark brown wood cylindrical handle curves slightly concavely and has a thin straight ridge along the upper back portion.

Culture
Cook Islanders
Material
wood and plant fibre
Made in
Cook Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model PaddleC1409

A wood paddle that has a horizontal double ring carved near the end of the plain handle. The blade has a wide leaf shape with an oblique base and an acute apice.

Culture
Cook Islanders
Material
wood
Made in
Cook Islands ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TrapIj11

A woven fibre basketry eel trap with a flask shape that has an open neck at the top, and also at the botom which turns inward to form an open-ended cone. Braided fibre loop cord attached around the top neck.

Culture
Cook Islanders
Material
fibre
Made in
Cook Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HookC447

Inwardly concavely curved shell shaft with the barb secured by fibre. Decorated with fibre string tassels at the barb end. Long attached string is bunched together and coiled around itself in the middle.

Culture
Cook Islanders
Material
shell and fibre
Made in
Manihiki Atoll, Cook Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ceremonial PaddleC1033

A light red-brown wood paddle with a blade that has a pointed ovate shape, slightly concavely curved on one side and semi-convexly curved on the other side. The blade angles upward toward the top. Vertical rows of zig zag decoration tightly cover the entire surface. The flat, fairly rectangular-shaped finial at the end of the long thin rectangular handle is decorated with scallops and circular motifs.

Culture
Cook Islanders
Material
wood
Made in
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fan1525/2

Flat, white-yellow, semicircular woven object with a brown shell at centre. Woven material is attached to the shell via fourteen holes bored through the shell's outer edge. Woven material has a long, fringed border.

Culture
Cook Islanders
Material
puku shell and coconut palm fibre
Made in
Cook Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fan1525/1

Flat, white-yellow, semicircular woven object with a brown shell at centre. Woven material is attached to the shell via ten holes bored through the shell's outer edge.

Culture
Cook Islanders
Material
puku shell and coconut palm fibre
Made in
Cook Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SkirtIj12

Tall long thin plant fibres hanging from a braided band of the same material and wrapped into a bundle.

Culture
Cook Islanders
Material
fibre
Made in
Cook Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Staff1295/4

A brown, wooden, carved staff. Two figures stand side-by-side at the top. Six smaller figures with short rectangular faces and large ears stand in a row along the sides just below them. Three small round heads are in between these two rows on the sides. Triangles have been carved out in between the three heads. Near the bottom two pairs of figures are carved with each pair sitting back-to-back. All the figures with arms are carved so that their hands clasp over their stomach.

Culture
Cook Islanders
Material
wood
Made in
Cook Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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