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Flute3287/2

Cylindrical flute with three openings along front. Top and bottom of flute are flattened. Two finger holes at the top and a large opening near the bottom. Six pointed star carved into flute beneath bottom opening. Snake carved above bottom opening. Snake's body curves out from around flute's right side. The head is directly above the opening, with forked tongue sticking out. Snake has thin diamond between its eyes, and diamonds and X's carved along its body. Only head and upper body of snake design are carved.

Culture
Interior Amazonia ?
Material
grass ?
Made in
Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tunic3287/1

Amazonian bark cloth vest. Vest is made from a single large piece of bark cloth. The sides are folded inwards and sewn across the shoulders with black thread, with circular cut-outs, on the folded and sewn edges, for arm holes. A teal half circle is drawn on both sides of the garment, with half on the front, and half on the back.

Culture
Interior Amazonia ?
Material
bark, plant fibre, cotton fibre ? and paint
Made in
Pastaza, Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure3157/24

Polished ceramic head of a figure. The figure has a large bump protruding from their left cheek. The facial features are incised with exception to the built up nose. There is a small circular hole on the top of the head. Fragment of a larger object.

Culture
Meso-American
Material
clay
Made in
Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure3157/132

Small ceramic head. Incised eyes and mouth. The figure appears to wear a headdress with a smooth top, but has lines and cross hatching around the face and back of head. Fragment of a larger object.

Culture
Valdivia ?
Material
clay
Made in
Ecuador ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure3157/131

Small ceramic head. Figure appears to have two sets of incised eyes as well as an incised mouth and nose. Face appears to be framed by hair that is shown by light incised lines. Fragment of a larger object.

Culture
Valdivia ?
Material
clay
Made in
Ecuador ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure3149/7

Cloth figure depicting a birth. A bed is made of light brown fabric, and holds inside it a large central figure lying on her back, with distended stomach. A small head emerges from beneath the bottom of her blanket, into the arms of a figure wearing a white shawl. To each side of the mother are attendants in blue shawls. All figures have large, triangular heads, with broad embroidered features. The mother's blanket is made of tightly woven wool in a multicoloured linear pattern. Her arms are small twigs wrapped with fibre.

Culture
Ecuadorian
Material
wool fibre, cotton fibre and plant fibre
Made in
Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tunic3028/1

Ceremonial bark cloth costume. The garment is a vest, slightly longer in front, completely open along the sides, with narrow shoulders and a deep v-neck at front. On the front a large toucan bird is attached at centre, wings spread to the sides, beak pointing downward. Linear designs have been lightly carved into the beak. To the bird’s sides two smaller beaks are sewn to the cloth, as are groupings of feathers dyed red, yellow and brown, several with seeds at their centre. Yellow and red feathers surround the v-neck. On the back of the garments is a smaller bird, black, with a serrated yellow and black beak and a strip of red and white feathers on the tail. Large, dyed feathers splay outward from the top of the body. Portions of bird beaks surround the creature. On front and back of vest, the bark cloth is heavily painted with zigzag, ‘x’ and other motifs in brown, yellow and red. Small, oval, black and red seeds line the edges and neck of the vest, as well as a decorative strip of feathers near the bottom where additional bark cloth has been sewn to the garment, front and back. Small dyed feathers hang from quills below this strip, while long feathers dangle from the bottom of the vest. These are dyed blue yellow and orange.

Culture
Interior Amazonia ?
Material
bark, toucan bird, toucan beak, feather, seed, paint, dye and fibre
Made in
Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ceremonial Headdress3028/2

Bark cloth and feather headband made of a wide strip of undecorated bark cloth, folded over. Short feathers on hide are sewn to and covering the exterior. Some areas of feather are dyed in green or red, alongside natural black and white feathers. Long feathers are sewn to the bark cloth, rising high above the headband, taller at centre, declining in height toward the sides. All are dyed blue on their fronts, with the backs of the tallest coloured gold, and shorter coloured red.

Culture
Interior Amazonia ?
Material
bark, skin, feather, fibre and dye
Made in
Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Roof Cross2903/84

Tin roof cross with various figures adorning it. At the bottom of the front of the cross there is a blue flower with petals that are bent upwards. The flower has white dots in its centre. Emerging from the back of this flower are a spear and a rounded object on the end of a pole. The rounded object on the end of a pole is on the left side of the object; it is a different shade of blue than the rest of the object. An angel in profile holds onto this pole. The angel is primarily white with a red eye and sash. The spear emerges from the right side of the flower. It is green. There is a blue fish attached to the pole of the spear. The fish has a red eye and a band of red dots around it. In the centre of this configuration of poles and figures, there is a skull. The skull is white with red eyes, nostrils and mouth. Further up the pole, there is a blue cup formed by three rounded shapes. At the top of the cup, there is a rectangular piece of tin with equidistant circles cut into it mounted horizontally across the vertical axis of the cross. Above this piece, there is a red pot. A flower or sun shape with five rays emerges from the top of the pot. The centre ray is white while the two on either side are red. The bottom rays rest on the horizontal axis of the cross. Also resting on this axis are a moon, rooster and flower. The moon is a crescent shape with a large nose and a red eye. It is painted white. To the right of the red pot, the rooster sits on the horizontal axis. The rooster is primarily white and it has red detailing around its wing, a red eye, red ear and red wattle. The flower is also on the right side of the axis; it is pink with white dots in its centre. At the very top of the cross, there is a duck in a sitting position. It is primarily white with a red eye. The duck’s body faces right but its head is turned leftward. Behind the red pot, there is a brown piece of string tied to the vertical support of the cross.

Culture
Ecuadorian
Material
tin metal
Made in
Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Wedding Panel2903/83

Embroidered wedding textile with four scenes stacked vertically. The central images are surrounded by two borders. At the top of the textile, there is a large bird with its wings spread wide. In the background, there are light and dark green plants and a sloping branch in the lower left corner of the bird’s section of the panel. Separating the top panel from the next, there is an orange line followed by a purple line. Underneath the purple line, the word ‘matrimonio’ is written in pink lettering. The word is flanked on either side by red and white flags. The word ‘matrimonio’ seems to sit on top of a structure in which four people are sitting. The structure has a black outline and the walls have an inner blue outline surrounding orange geometric designs. The bottom of the structure is denoted by a wavy pink line and a geometric blue line. Two of the four people sitting in the house are men and two are women. Standing on the outside of the house, on the left side, there is a barefoot man with his arms upraised. There is a pink squiggly line on the left side of the man and a purple squiggly line on the right. Also, there is a green leafy plant on the ground between his legs. On the opposite side of the house, there is a woman whose arms are also upraised. In between the woman’s body and the building, there is a squiggly pink line. There is a green leafy plant on the ground between her legs. The scene is separated from the one below it by a pink line followed by an orange line. In the scene below there are two men and two women that appear to be dancing. Each person in this panel has a squiggly line on either side of them. The first woman has a purple and a pink line. Below her skirt, on the left side of the image, there is a green leafy plant. The next person to the right of the woman is a man with a blue line and an orange line around him. Also there is a green leafy plant on the ground between his legs. To his right is a woman wearing a shirt, hat, skirt and sandals. She is surrounded by a purple and orange line. Behind her left foot, there is a green leafy plant. Also, in front of her right foot, there is another green leafy plant in a darker shade. To her right is a man in a hat, shirt, pants and sandals. He has a purple line on his left and a pink line on his right. There is a green leafy plant between his legs. This section is separated from the one below by a pink line followed by a purple line. In the bottom section of the panel, there is a scene with a man and woman fishing. The woman is on the left side in a brown boat. Attached to the purple fishing line that the woman is holding is a large brown fish. She is on the far right side of her boat and behind her, on the left side, there is a blue squiggly line and a triangular structure formed out of five lines. The lines are black, red, orange and light orange. To the left of the triangular structure, there is a dark green leafy plant. Below her boat, there is a pink fish, more leafy plants and blue squiggly lines to represent water. On the right side of the panel, the man kneels in a pink and orange boat. The purple fishing line that the man holds is attached to a pink fish. There is a green leafy plant in front of the man, on the right side of the panel. Behind the man there are two blue squiggly lines contained by an orange curved line and a black curved line. On the left of this structure, there is an oval structure. It is outlined in black and has a black line through the centre. There are two curved brown lines within the structure. On the far left end of the man’s boat there is another green leafy plant. In the top left and right corners of the textile, there are looped bunches of red and black thread.

Culture
Peruvian ?
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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