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MaskIe480

Mask depicting a long and narrow human face with protruding eyes, a protruding tongue and a recurved nose with the head of a boar-like figure at the chin. The face is heavily encrusted with shells at the edges, and ornamented with black cassowary feathers at the sides. Tusks protrude from the nostrils and the cheeks as well as from the cheeks of the boar-like figure. Sennit fibre tassels are tied through holes along the protruding rod running from the forehead to below the mouth. A loop hanger is attached at the top.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
sennit fibre, cassowary feather, shell, wood, paint, wool fibre and dye
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskIe479

Carved wood mask consisting of a head with an elongated brow; a long nose, mouth and chin. The top of the head is decorated with cassowary feathers and a small tuft of human hair. The face is elaborately detailed with dark blue, light blue and brown stylized designs on a white ground. There is a long, cylindrical shaped piece of wood that stretches from the bottom of the nose to the bottom of the mask; on the end is a small carved bird. The forehead and the side of the face are inlaid with rows of small shells; the eyes and sections of the forehead are detailed with inlaid cowrie shells. The nose has boar tusk on either side. The lower sides and bottom are lined with small bundles of sennit fibre. The bottom tip and the sides have bundles of black feathers.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood, shell, cassowary feather, sennit fibre, human hair, boar tusk, paint, cowrie shell and feather
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FluteIe455

Flute stop. Carved with an obal face with a handle extending from the bottom. Inlaid cowrie shell eyes are surrounded by a black tapering oval. Open black mouth with red lips and white teeth in a grin. Face is decorated with curvi-linear triangular lines painted red, black, and white. Cylindrical handle tapering at both ends. Handle is black with horizontal red and white bands at the top.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood, cowrie shell and paint
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeaddressIe450

Basketry woven piece that has a central oval around which, there are five solid bands curving from one side across the top to the other side. The bands, from the middle to the top, are white, red, yellow, white, and orange. In between the bands, there is a zig zag pattern.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
fibre and clay
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskIe449

Open-work basketry woven mask of plant fibre that tapers from the sides to a long vertical point, creating the nose with a circular eye on either side surrounded by a vertical oval. From the top of the head, there are three flat levels of radiating zig zag bands. Covered with clay and painted white, black, red and yellow-orange.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
fibre, paint and clay
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ceremonial DaggerIe444

A circular clay face with long dark brown feathers on top and a bone point below that is concave on the front side while convex on the back side. The cowrie shell eyes are painted red and are outlined with a black line extending upward toward its respective temple, which in turn, is outlined with white and red. There is a long black line running down along the middle of the face to the end of the nose. The top of the forehead is decorated with small cowrie shells. The lips are pinched to pout out and the mouth area is white.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
bone, paint, shell, clay and feather
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Armband988/8

Circular band woven in a herringbone-like pattern with alternating brown and grey stems (?).

Culture
New Guinea
Material
stem ? or dye ?
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Armband988/7

Black, thickly woven circular band heavily encrusted with dirt (?).

Culture
New Guinea
Material
stem ?
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Armband988/6

Black band thickly woven in a herringbone-like pattern.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
stem ?
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Armband988/5

Brown-grey circular band woven in a herringbone-like pattern.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
stem ?
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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