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PantsCb79

White pants with red cuffs and multicoloured embroidery. The men’s white cotton pants are made from 6.5 cm woven strips seamed together. The front and back are very wide and seamed at sides and across the bottom leaving the corners open and gathered into two cuffs. The cuffs are green and red striped, with the occasional wide yellow stripe. The top edge is turned over to form an easing for a drawstring. The lower front of the legs are embroidered in red, green, blue, yellow, and pink, in a complex interlocking design.

Culture
Hausa
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BowlCb90

Hand hammered metal bowl with three riveted feet and a worn copper lining. Punched design; the top border alternates the eternal knot in an oblong or a square with a flower-like design in a square. The second band is a flower and eternal knot entwined. The third band is a rope design. At the centre is an interlocking eternal knot design. Artist signature and place made etched on border, between the feet.

Culture
Hausa
Material
metal and copper metal
Made in
Kano, Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BootsCb78 a-b

Pair of goatskin boots in three main parts. Sole in black, front upper in yellow and back upper and legging in red/brown; trimmed with bands of leather in blue/green. Uppers have horizontal bands of impressed decoration enclosing an applique decoration of concentric circles of cut-out leather on the outer aspect of each leg. The boots are soft soled and show little wear. The right boot has a small patch sewn on the inner leg.

Culture
Hausa
Material
dye, cotton fibre and goat skin
Made in
Kano, Nigeria ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SlippersCb77 a-b

Pair of heelless slippers; the sole consists of three or more layers of rawhide and leather sewn together as a separate unit. The leather insole and lined upper are attached separately. The upper is cut widely towards a slightly pointed toe. The upper is ornamented in an impressed or tooled design of straight lines, dots and circles forming a set of triangles pointing towards the toe.

Culture
Hausa
Material
rawhide skin, cotton fibre and leather skin
Made in
Kano, Nigeria ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BagCb76

A brown leather bag in three main pieces with appliqued, and embroidered leather trim outlining the flap and the front of the bag. Side inserts extend upward to form a sheath into which a double braided strap handle is bound. Front flap fastens with a leather toggle. Design motifs include diamond and cup-shaped cut-outs of decreasing size, crosses, and dot-and-dash lines.

Culture
Fulani ?
Material
leather skin, adhesive and dye
Made in
Kano, Nigeria ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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WhiskCb75

Fly whisk of light coloured horse hair with the handle bound in thin dark brown leather. A leather strap forms a loop from the end of the handle and there is a leather fringe where the handle meets the horse hair. The loop is decorated with long parallel stripes of dyed and incised lines and the fringe has dyed black parallel lines overall.

Culture
Hausa
Material
leather skin, adhesive ?, lacquer ?, dye and horse hair
Made in
Kano, Nigeria ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeaddressAf478

An all black Janus headdress; one of the heads has a multi-peg headdress, clean-shaven, open mouth revealing filed teeth, protruding lips, ears, eyes, short nose, and a vertical ridge high on the forehead. Second head has matted hair, beard, and other features similar to first. Both heads supported by a common neck merging into a round base. Skin covering wrinkled and broken in several places, revealing wood. Base hollow, interior painted black.

Culture
Ekoi
Material
wood, skin, paint and fibre
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SwordCc2 a-c

Sword (part a) with scabbard (part b) and cord (part c). Sword has a double-edged blade with two crescents on either side at the hilt end. Hilt is covered with brown leather decorated on each side with a star of four intersecting lines on one side and two n's on other side. Pommel is decorated with brass and steel caps superimposed on each other. Grip is covered with black leather. Scabbard is brown leather stretched and sewn over a wood frame with two brown leather rectangular straps. There are two tin bands at either end wrapped around and decorated with excised star and punched dots to make a stippled line around all edges. Chape of scabbard is tan leather and edged with tin. Cord of red and green wool with a tassel at either end is braided over a central core and knotted to the straps.

Culture
Nupe ?
Material
steel metal, leather skin, wool fibre and wood
Made in
Kano, Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Musical InstrumentAf326

Raft-like group of cane sections with fourteen split cane strings wrapped with split cane and resin. The back has a woven panel of eleven bands.

Culture
Igbo
Material
palm leaf, wood and stem ?
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeadrestK2.19

A doughnut-shape with light brown leaves around the entire surface secured by rows of twisted leaves around the sides. Made in such a way as to leave a hole at the centre.

Culture
Jaba
Material
leaf
Made in
Kwoi, Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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