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Model Canoe2791/8 a-d

Model canoe with four seat boards, a mast and 2 paddles. The canoe (a) has an identical painted green, white and black design on each side of a fish with large teeth. Black and red lines decorate bow and stern. The mast (b), with painted red and black rings at top and centre, fits into a cross piece on canoe. Both paddles (c,d) are painted red, green and black but paddle (c) has a painted red handle and raven with open mouth. Signed by artist at stern.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
wood, paint and metal
Made in
Port Simpson, British Columbia, Canada and Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model Totem Pole2791/7

Carved and painted model totem pole nailed onto square base. Pencil marks are visible beneath the red, green, black, red, white and yellow paint. Represented, top to bottom, are a small eagle with white head and yellow beak perched atop the curled tail of a killer whale with narrow pointed dorsal fin diving down to touch the head of a seated bear with red front paws raised up in the air.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
wood, paint and metal
Made in
Port Simpson, British Columbia, Canada and Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model Totem Pole2791/6

Carved and painted model totem pole nailed onto square base. Represented, top to bottom, are a small eagle with white head and yellow beak perched atop the curled tail of a killer whale with narrow pointed dorsal fin diving down to touch the head of a seated bear with red front paws raised up in the air.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
wood, paint and metal
Made in
Port Simpson, British Columbia, Canada and Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Baptismal FontA1776 a-c

Large wooden carving of the upper torso of a male angel, holding a bowl. Figure is round at its base (waist), dressed in a blue-grey robe, holding a black bowl with one hand. The other hand is raised, palm out, in benediction. A pair of wings (parts b,c) with the carved feather side painted grey and the other side white with grey painted feathering, attach to the back with pegs.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
paint, metal, wood and red cedar wood
Made in
Port Simpson, British Columbia, Canada and Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Spoon2713/10

Carved silver spoon with an oval shaped bowl and long handle ending in a triangulated point. Depicted is a killer whale on the shaft, a bird’s head on the tip of the handle and a face on the bottom of the bowl. The tip of the handle curves slightly back. Fine crosshatching in the negative space. There are seven lines of design on the whale's tail. The underside is engraved with ‘Fort Simpson; B.C.’, written on two rows.

Culture
Haida
Material
silver metal
Made in
Port Simpson, British Columbia, Canada and Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Spoon2713/9

Carved silver spoon with an oval shaped bowl and a handle that curves back at the tip. Killer whale is depicted on the shaft, a bird’s head on the tip of the handle and a face on the bottom of the bowl. Fine crosshatching is in the negative space. There are six lines of design in the whale's tail.The underside is engraved with ‘Fort Simpson; B.C.’, written on one line.

Culture
Haida
Material
silver metal
Made in
Port Simpson, British Columbia, Canada and Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bentwood BoxA8539 a-b

Bentwood box with painted designs in black and red; with a lid (part b) with edges that bevel inwards towards the base. The main decoration fills each of two opposite sides with a bilaterally symmetrical design. The other two sides each have a less elaborate abstract design formed by an ovoid with two u-forms centred on each panel, also in black and red. The side joint and bottom are nailed.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
metal, paint and cedar wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNb7.313

Oval cedar bark basket with a square bottom and dark brown diagonal overlay decoration. Decoration consists of four pair of two parallel lines each of dyed cedar bark. Decoration starts near the rim and turns at the corner of base and proceeds up towards the opposite rim, resulting in the decoration covering all sides of basket. Dyed bark is seen every other stitch. String handles consist of two bundles of three pieces of string. The two bundles run parallel to each other, joined together at their top edges by another bundle of two or three pieces of string 6 cm. long. String runs inside the basket for 2.7 cm. on one side, and 4 cm. on the other. String does not run on the underside of the basket.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
fibre and cedar bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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House Screen BoardNb7.240 a

A long rectangular cedar plank with faded Northwest Coast designs imprinted in the surface of the wood; black and red designs are barely perceptible.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
red cedar wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model PaddleA6958 a-d

Four (parts a-d) small wood paddles painted in black with a design of a bird. Both parts a and b have on each side, a thin black ovoid in tapering oval eye within a black-outlined ovoid that has a black-outlined u form underneath while a black-outlined semi-oval is at the tip with a black L-shape underneath. Part c has a similar eye form but with the following in addition: on one side, the eye is plain while the other eye has eye lashes; on one side, the u form underneath has black cross hatching while the other side has a thin line down the middle; while both sides have cross hatching and dots in the semi-oval at the tip and the L-shape underneath, respectively, the other side has dots above as well. Part d has a similar eye form but with the following in addition: while one eye is plain, the other eye has eye lashes; however, both have cross hatching in the u form underneath and the semi-oval at the tip with dots in the L-shape below. All four parts have a two-feathered wing-like feature coming from a central black-outlined ovoid; however, the various designs are as follows: Part a has a black top feather and a cross hatched bottom feather on both side; part b has two black feathers on one side while the other side has a diagonal lined top feather and a black bottom feather; part c has a black top feather and a cross hatched bottom feather on one side while the other side has an elongated black top feather and a black bottom feather; and part d has a black top feather and a cross hatched bottom feather on both sides. The lower portion of the body near the handle end is dotted on all four pieces (parts a-d). All of the handles have a horizontal cylindrical finial. Parts a, b, and d have a pair of black diagonal lines running in the same direction near the handle finial, except that part d reverses direction on the other side. Part c has a black u-line near the handle finial.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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