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FigureK2.444

Oba's (ruler's) head with Oba's bead headdress and collar. The face has large eyes, a nose, and two lips. The rounded headdress has a horizontal brick-like pattern and is decorated with a flat protrusion curving upward and forward, and having curved grooves and ridges at each side. A set of four spikes is at each side of the head at the bottom ends of these flat curving protrusions.

Culture
Edo
Material
brass metal
Made in
Benin City, Edo, Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureK2.8

Much stylized human figure, black, with faces on both sides of the head. The front face has large open eyes, curved upraised eye brows, a big nose with wide nostrils, and an open mouth with an indentation within each cheek. The back face has small closed eyes, a slight upraised brow, a small nose, and a slightly open mouth with slightly fuller cheeks. The elongated neck has five protruding bulging rings. The wide shoulders round out to the arms resting at the sides. Figure has breasts, and a navel on the one side with the open eyes while the figure has a flat chest (or back ?) on the other side with closed eyes. The front side has feet with toes while the back side has rounded feet. Both faces are sharing a rounded dotted cap. On a base.

Culture
West African
Material
wood
Made in
Aba, Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureAf579

Standing wood figure (ibeji) with black beaded waistband. Stylized black hair is slightly oblong, and is accentuated with vertical grooved lines. Three oval grooved marks on the forehead, and on each cheek. Arms are at the sides. Slight breasts, and a naval. Has a blue beaded necklace, and a blue, black, and clear orange-yellow beaded necklace. Its left arm has a string of cowrie shell, and blue, and red beads. Doll has a loin cloth carved with panels and stands straight on a circular pedestal.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
wood, paint, cowrie shell, glass and fibre
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureAf580

Standing wood female figure (ibeji) with a black beaded waistband. Stylized black hair is oblong, and is accentuated with vertical grooved lines, which also elaborate upon the feather-shaped adornments. Three oval grooved marks on the forehead, and on each cheek. Arms are at the sides, left hand holds a string with cowrie shells. Has breasts pointing downward, and outward. Has knees and a naval. Wears a blue beaded necklace. Stands on circular pedestal with diamond pattern carved on base.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
wood, glass, cowrie shell, fibre and paint
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Game BoardK2.225

Long wood piece with parallel sides and both ends tapered to a point. There are six pairs of circular pots in the middle, totalling twelve, with a triangular dish at each tapered end. There are two rectangular legs, one at each end, and both of which are carved with a closed wall at the end and opening up toward the middle with three pairs of columns where there is a cylindrical leg in the middle which flares downward. The columns are carved with various geometric designs. The cylindrical leg tapers upward into a smaller square hole at the centre top of the wood piece which is surrounded by a carved grooved diamond shape around which the top has a design of many longitudinal grooved lines. Stained black.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
wood
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Stool1198/4

Carved wooden stool with ten cone-shaped feet (each is widest at the top where they meet the seat), and an inverted cone-shaped seat with a carved geometric design on the relatively flat, circular top face of the seat. The rim of the seat is also carved with a zigzag pattern.

Culture
Nupe ?
Material
wood
Made in
Nigeria ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Wand921/5

A dark wood piece with a double back-to-back face on one end that has two triangular protrusions around the face and pointing upward. The stem of the handle has a horizontal triangular pattern all around surrounded by horizontal lines, four on the top and three on the bottom. Near the bottom, there is a circular rim with a loop at the end.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
wood
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ladle921/6

A dark wood ladle with a standing figure for the handle. There is fibre string wrapped around his neck. His hands are resting on his hips. The bowl of the ladle is rectangular around the edges and then tapers into a more rounded and circular shape.

Culture
West African
Material
wood and fibre
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure1384/7 a-b

A wood figure (part a) dressed in a uniform and high heels with a gun slung across his right shoulder and on his left hip. Shirt and upper high heels painted white. Wears a tie. Grey eyes painted white in surrounding area. Some square badges painted white. Has upraised grooved eyebrows, moustache, and hair. Has a hat (part b) with a crown decoration at the front and oval rows around its oval shape.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
wood and paint
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drum1373/45

Square-shaped drum with white skin that has been stretched over a light brown coloured frame and stapled at the sides. On the reverse, the drum frame has a cross-piece section in the centre that is secured with two nails and has a secondary wood frame inset into the outer drum frame.

Culture
West African
Material
wood, metal and skin
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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