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Wooden Spoon ModelE395493-0
Stone PestleE395487-0
AdzeE395490-0

From card: "From Timothy Harris, 1925. Forked wood, one side handle, other shorter, has steel blade lashed in with cloth & rawhide. Older ones had stone blades. Loan: Museo Nacional de Antropologia, May 18, 1964." Loan returned 2012.

Culture
Tsimshian and Gitksan
Made in
Kispiox, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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SpoonA3737

Dark brown spoon carved from mountain goat horn; handle carved with several figures.

Culture
Gitxsan
Material
mountain goat horn
Made in
Kispiox, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeaddressA7971

Headdress composed of twined cedar bark folded in half vertically and secured with a braided band near the top. Several tufts of short cedar bark strands attached at the top with off-white fibre. Decorated with a cluster of eight off-white quills. Off-white fabric straps are attached. (Note: no longer round--has been flattened.)

Culture
Gitxsan
Material
quill, cedar bark and fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BagA7961 v

Leather bag with blue flannel trim along one side and the bottom. Stuffed with paper, skin (?) and ochre.

Culture
Gitxsan
Material
fibre, leather skin, ochre pigment, paper, skin ?, ink and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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WandA7961 l-q

Six wands: l) eight eagle quills attached together at one end with two sets of pompoms, two dark red, and two bright red; m) eight eagle quills attached together at one end with two sets of pompoms, two dark red, and two bright red; n) nine eagle quills attached together at one end with four sets of pompoms and two lengths of dark yellow ribbon attached at the sides; o) nine eagle quills attached together at one end with one red pompom attached; p) nine eagle quills attached together at one end with four sets of pompoms, three sets of two bright red and one set of two green, as well as two lengths of yellow ribbon attached at the sides; q) six eagle quills attached together at one end with three tassels attached on one side, two red and one blue. (Only 3 wands are on display, the rest are in storage.)

Culture
Gitxsan
Material
eagle feather, fibre and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fragment: CopperA1738 a-b

Two fragments (parts a-b) from a larger copper. The first piece (part a) is relatively rectangular with an orange/bronze-coloured zig zag band across the middle. The second piece (part b) is relatively rectangular with angular sides and is undecorated while also curving inward along one side.

Culture
Gitxsan
Material
copper metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Rubbing584/3

A black rubbing of a grave stone that is vertically rectangular. The top point has a design consisting of a bushel of wheat ? on the left side, and the bottom has a design consisting of a pentagon shape that has a diamond angled inward at the top centre with an ivy leaf design on the left side. The grave stone is written with the words 'In memory / of NICODEMUS / DOAKH-A-K?YISH / Died at / Kish - piax / Skeena River B.C. The rubbing is on a vertically rectangular, light white-yellow paper piece.

Culture
Tsimshian
Made in
Kispiox, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mask1768/6

Carved wooden nak nox mask of human face with red and blue striped design. Outer sides of nose and lips outlined in red. Circle design on sides of either cheek. Two strips of rawhide on back, attached with metal nails on one side. Strip of wood nailed across lower back of inside. Top of nose attached with three wooden dowels. Plastic wire attached by screws on top of inside.

Culture
Gitxsan
Material
wood, paint ?, metal, synthetic fibre and rawhide skin
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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