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CarvingIe454

Thin brown wood carving of two crouching human figures facing in opposite directions to each other. Each figure has one hand in the mouth and one leg. Faces have rounded oval eyes, a long thin protruding nose, a brow line, and a cap of hair on top of the head.

Culture
Asmat ?
Material
ironwood wood ?
Made in
Papua, Indonesia ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Box985/5 a-b

Rectangular box with white shell adornment on sides. Box is painted black and red.

Culture
Western Indonesian
Material
shell, leaf, dye and rattan
Made in
Bali, Indonesia ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket985/3

Square basket with square base and round top. Zigzag weave in two shades of brown. Cording attached to flat round top of rim. Rectangular wooden piece at attaches to basket at the corners and raises the basket above the ground.

Culture
Western Indonesian
Material
bamboo grass and rattan
Made in
Lombok, Nusa Tenggara Barat, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Spear1251/5

A flat wood lance-olate wood piece with a cylindrical handle and a point at the opposite end which angles into a downward curved point. One side is carved with a tree along the flat lance-olate part.

Culture
Eastern Indonesian ?
Material
wood
Made in
Indonesia ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shredder951/2

Dark brown, long, flat board, rounded on one end, with a triangular, upright column of wood attached at the other end. The board features shallowly carved curvilinear designs and two circular, flat sections of white-brown shell pegged down at the rounded end. The triangular column, with the point facing away from the board, has a face carved on it in such a manner that it is bisected vertically by the angle created by the point of the triangle. The column is topped by two vertical pieces of metal (corroded), each with a curl at the top.

Culture
Western Indonesian
Material
wood, shell and metal
Made in
Kalimantan, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Penis Sheath1305/1

A hollow curved piece with a pointed tip. Fibre is wrapped around near the top where a string is attached at both sides.

Culture
West Papuan
Material
gourd fruit and fibre
Made in
Papua, Indonesia ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sarong820/6

Woman's tube skirt. Rectangular woven textile with the ends sewn together, creating a tube shape. In the centre is a yellow stripe, from which each side the patterns are identical. The next band has thin red and black stripes. The next band has stripes of solid red and yellow interspersed with stripes of red, yellow and black in a checkered pattern. The end section has multicoloured figures with arms raised on black ground.

Culture
Eastern Indonesian
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
West Timor, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sarong820/5

Sarong made in a ikat weave. Primarily bands of beige and red curvilinear designs on a dark brown ground; green horizontal stripes with white lines within them. Four panel lengths of cloth, machine-stitched together, to form the whole sarong.

Culture
Eastern Indonesian
Material
cotton fibre ?, rayon fibre ? and dye
Made in
Flores, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ShieldIe503

Shield carved from one piece of wood with a handle on the reverse that emerges from a raised ridge running from the bottom to the top where it protrudes above the top of the shield with a knob-like finial at the very top. The front is carved with curvilinear designs emphasized with yellow, black and white pigment, and the back is decorated with diamond designs in the same colours. Sennit fibre is knotted though holes along the sides of the shield to form a tassel on each face.

Culture
Asmat
Material
wood, sennit fibre, clay and paint
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearIe458

Long, light brown wood shaft. The head is bound onto the head and consists of a bone point. The dark brown wood head underneath the bone point is carved with four horizontal bands around the upper portion, seven pairs of barbs and nine pairs of barbs that are perpendicular to the previous seven. Shaft has a lightly carved curvi-linear design around near the upper portion. A woven fibre sleeve is at the base of the head on the shaft.

Culture
West Papuan
Material
wood, bone ? and fibre
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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