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Model GunCi19

Model soapstone rifle. Leather strap is attached to barrel through a metal ring, and to the butt through a hole carved in the stone. Inscriptions on both sides of the barrel, and a circle within a circle inscribed at the end of the butt, at top edge of butt, and behind chamber for bullet and locking mechanism. Hollow area underneath barrel near front.

Culture
Turkish
Material
soapstone stone ?, metal and leather skin
Made in
Cyprus
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model KnifeCi18

Model soapstone bayonet. Handle has deep groove carved into one side, which would fit over the muzzle of a rifle barrel. One side of guard is short and blunt with deep square hole carved into it, the other side of guard extends out. Double edged blade. One side is inscribed with date, "1918".

Culture
Turkish
Material
soapstone stone
Made in
Cyprus
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Lizard FigureCi17

Beaded, stuffed lizard. Upper side of body is dark blue with diamond design in green, white, yellow, and red. Yellow band around neck. Green and yellow eyes and 'horns' in blue and yellow. mouth is lined in white, protruding tongue in blue, yellow and red. Underside of jaw has green triangle outlined in dark blue. Underside and legs are light blue with dark blue criss-cross design on belly. Tongue and ear beads are strung on wire and legs have metal posts inside.

Culture
Turkish
Material
cotton fibre, metal and glass
Made in
Aibaba, Cyprus ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Lizard FigureCi16

Beaded, stuffed lizard. Upper side of figure is green with two diamonds on back in black, red, yellow and blue. Black band around neck. Head has red eyes and red-tipped protruding tongue. Around edge of mouth are blue and white beads. Legs are blue. Underside of body is white with black criss-cross design. Tongue beads are strung on wire and legs have metal posts inside.

Culture
Turkish
Material
cotton fibre, glass and metal
Made in
Aibaba, Cyprus ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ChestM2133 a

Large trunk. Front feet carved as claws; front of trunk painted black. Elaborately carved detail on front of trunk, plants, flowers, vines, and a lion on each side of center. Key hole at center top. The lid is plain except for a black painted border, sides also plain with black border. Metal handles on each end. (The tunk is part a; part b is the key.)

Culture
Cypriot ?
Material
wood, paint and metal
Made in
Cyprus ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cross1547/1 a-b

Ornately designed metal sculpture of a cross (part a) that stands on a metal tubular pole and an ornately designed spherical stand. Cross is covered by a large dome-shaped glass cover (part b) and sits on a circular wooden stand. Wooden stand has a label attached to its side with a printed inscription.

Culture
Greek
Material
bronze metal ?, wood and glass
Made in
Cyprus ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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VialM3.1

Small vial composed of a concave ring foot, a bulbous body, a cylindrical neck, and four vertical ribbon handles placed at the junction of the neck and the body. The body and neck are decorated with raised lines arranged in patterns.

Culture
Turkish ?
Material
lead metal
Made in
Cyprus
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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JarM1.57

Amphoriskos made of cream, fine-grained with scattered white limestone particles and dark grits. Red-brown and black thin matt paint. Flat base, ovoid body narrowing markedly toward bottom globular upper half, short wide neck, slightly thickened knob rim, two small horizontal handles acting as lugs on shoulder, a band of short vertical strokes on shoulder, below which is a horizontal wavy line. Two vertical strokes frame each handle. Two horizontal black bands on lower part of body.

Culture
Cypriot
Material
clay and paint
Made in
Cyprus
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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JarM1.56

Small yellow-buff jar (amphoriskos) with two handles. The jar is made of very fine-grained light clay, hard-fired with a few small dark grits and white limestone particles. The broad body sits on a ring foot with a short pedestal. The shoulders slope in sharply to a short wide cylinder-shaped neck and a wide mouth with flat, slightly everted rim. The two flattened strap handles are attached to rim and shoulders. The designs are brown-black matt paint mottled in the interior to a dark red-brown. Decoration consists of six thin concentric lines on lower half of body and a broad band around bottom. There are two narrow bands on neck and three on flattened top surface of rim. The foot, handles and inside of neck are solid brown.

Culture
Cypriot
Material
paint and clay
Made in
Cyprus
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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DishM1.48

Clay dish consisting of red clay with a cream slip. Coarse-grained clay with a few small white limestone particles, a very large quantity of dark grits, giving the surface a very speckled appearance, and a small amount of fine silver mica. Red-brown and grey-black thin matt paint. Very low ring foot, gently curved wall, two small horizontal handles attached to rim. Decoration on the interior consists of two bands of paint on the wall and a spiral starting from a large dot in the centre. The line gets progressively broader towards the outside. Rim and handles painted black. On exterior wall the decoration is more elaborate consisting of red and black bands of varying width and spacing. Bottom of ring foot is decorated with crosshatched lines.

Culture
Cypriot
Material
clay and paint
Made in
Cyprus
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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