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ClubC16

Carved wooden club with a sword-like head and a plain, straight handle. The head has a horizontal rib and toothed edges.

Culture
Fijian
Material
wood
Made in
Fiji ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ClubC17

Carved wooden club with a narrow handle flaring to a paddle-like head; head has a raised ridge along the centre line on both sides.

Culture
Samoan
Material
wood
Made in
Savai'i, Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ClubC18

Paddle-shaped wooden club with two notches on either side of the top of the blade and a horizontal toothed ridge across the blade. Long, straight handle with a slightly flared end.

Culture
Samoan
Material
wood
Made in
Savai'i, Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ClubC20

Round handle has geometric patterns composed of squares and triangles. The blade has a hook at the end. Designs emphasized with white clay.

Culture
Samoan
Material
clay and wood
Made in
Savai'i, Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RingC102 a-b

Two small narrow circular bands with metal inlay composed of a cross with two geometric shapes at either side (part a) consisting of a diamond shape with a geometric shape or three geometric shapes at either side (part b) consisting of two outward pointing triangles with an I-shape.

Culture
Samoan
Material
tortoise shell
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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WhiskC22

A dark brown cylindrical handle, thinner in between the flared outward ends. One end has a tassel with braided bases of numerous strands of vegetable fibres forming the whisk.

Culture
Samoan
Material
plant fibre and wood
Made in
Upolu, Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BeaterC23

Wood squaree beater pounder tapers to become a round handle which flares outward slightly at the end. Three sides of the beater have reeded grooves, with the other side being flat. Used for pounding off bark cloth from the mulberry tree until it is wider to create the tapa.

Culture
Samoan
Material
wood
Made in
Upolu, Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ContainerC24

Dark brown fibre is braided to form a net sling holder for the brown shell. The shell is rounded, has three equally spaced vertical ridges, and comes to a point at the end where the netting is open. The netting has an open lattice-work pattern and comes up around the rounded part of the shell extending into long braided strips which are knotted and braided together at the end.

Culture
Samoan
Material
fibre and coconut nutshell
Made in
Savai'i, Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa ClothC941

The cloth is rectangular with designs covering the entire surface in dark red-brown, brown and black on a natural off-white background. On one side there are squares outlined in black and filled in with large black double triangles and patterned brown backgrounds. The other side shows the exact same designs but painted only in brown on the natural background.

Culture
Samoan ?
Material
paper mulberry bark, dye and oil ?
Made in
Samoa ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketC25

A small cylindrical basket with a simple open weave design. One horizontal band in red along the upper middle on a natural background. Handle is plaited and woven together.

Culture
Samoan
Material
palm leaf
Made in
Savai'i, Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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