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Model Totem Pole2791/2

Model totem pole on a circular red base depicting a crouching brown bear, with killer whale and spotted eagle at top. Eagle has outstretched wings attached with nails. Colours used are black, red, green, brown, gold and greyish white.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, paint, lacquer and metal
Made in
Smith Inlet, British Columbia, Canada and Takus, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Storage ChestA4285 a-b

Wooden, storage chest (parts a-b) with a brown wood frame bottom, metal side handles and a flat wood lie (part b). The box (part a) is painted on three sides with a white background and Northwest Coast stylized figures in black, green, grey and red. The front design depicts a front facing whale with its body split to either side, its dorsal fin on top and its tail fin at the bottom. The ends each have a whale in profile.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, paint, cotton fibre and metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Power BoardA6470

Wooden figure made out of an old box consisting of a duntsik or power board used in winter dances. The design is cutout with Northwest Coast stylized forms and outlined in black paint. The image represented is a sisiutl with its curled horns protruding from the top; a human figure in the middle and a bird ? at the bottom. The board used to be in one piece but was cut and is currently in five bound together with sections of post and hole along with metal wiring.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, paint and metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA6351

Black, brown, white and red humanoid mask with round eyes, gill slits, a moustache and scale symbols around the mouth. Mask features a prominent brow ridge, protruding nose and open lips.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA4239

Wooden, carved, bear mask with a long snout painted red and black. The muzzle is hinged with a nail on either side, to a lower jaw that is inlayed with wooden teeth. There is twine on the inside of the mask that connects to the jaw allowing it to open and close. The head of the mask has been covered with a piece of hide that hangs over the back. The face of the bear has black edging and green ovoid-like shapes around the eyes that are cutout. The mask is painted black, green and red with Northwest Coast stylized designs.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
fibre, skin, wood, paint and metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Raven RattleA8426

Brown wood rattle with the top piece in the form of a raven that has a reclining figure on its back connected to a frog by a protruding tongue and the bottom piece in the shape of a rounded semi-oval emphasized by a bird's face with a recurved beak. Handle is bound with brown string. Raven has black ovoid in ovoid eyes surrounded by a tapering oval and a green area within a black ovoid. A white split u is in between the eye and the nose with another one below the eye and behind the mouth. The nostrils are a vertical black ovoid. The red mouth is outlined by grey. At either side of the neck, there is a vertical black ovoid in ovoid. The body is black with wings that have a black split u, a black ovoid in ovoid, a black u form that has a green L-shape and two red cross-hatched u forms within, a white split u, and a black ovoid at the tip. The tail has an upward curving black ovoid in ovoid from which emanate four feathers that have a white split u within a black u form that has a white ovoid-circle within. The reclining human on top has a black body and a white face with circular black eyes surrounded by a green area with black brows above and a black line around the red mouth where the red tongue of the frog connects. The frog has a green dashed grey body and a white face with circular black eyes surrounded by a green area with black brows above and red nostrils. Connected to the back of the frog, there is a bird head that is part of the raven's upraised tail. The bird's head has circular black eyes surrounded by a green area with a red mouth and a black beak while four feathers are along the neck that have a white split u within a black u form. The bottom piece that is the belly of the raven has a face with circular black eyes surrounded by a tapering oval and a green area with black brows above, a black beak nose with green nostrils, and an open red mouth showing twelve white teeth. Below, there is a vertically bisymmetrical black design consisting of an ovoid in ovoid with various curving lines at either corner side and two inverted u forms below sharing a central ovoid in ovoid at the bottom. The bottom of the wings are white.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
fibre, wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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CopperA4343

Copper that has been split and rejoined. Base has edges that flare slightly towards the bottom edge, as well as a raised ridge that runs vertically down the centre. The upper section has edges that flare towards the top curved edge. Both sections are riveted together with four strips of copper that serve as supports on the reverse. The copper has incised designs.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
copper metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA4289

Mask with a scalloped scale symbol edge at the top, slightly bulging eyes, a hooked nose with flared nostrils, and an angular, open mouth. The mask is painted with green, white and red on the scalloped top edge, white overall with heavy black brows, green around the eyes, a red and black design on the temples, green around the cheeks, red on the nostrils, a black scalloped gill symbol design around the mouth, a black moustache, red lips, and a black chin. An off-white cord is attached on the reverse through holes at the top and side edges.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
fibre, cotton fibre, wood, paint and metal
Made in
Blunden Harbour, British Columbia, Canada ? or Ba'as, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA6168

Mask with movable lower jaw, curved lines representing gills on the cheeks, and a rounded beak-like nose. The mask has a cedar bark fringe at the top, back and bottom. The mask is painted black with white delineating the eyebrows, nostrils, lips and eye sockets, white gill lines, green around the eyes, red nostrils and lips, and a white curvilinear line that extends from the corner of the mouth to between the eye socket and nostril on both sides.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, cedar bark, fibre and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fish MaskA6222

Mask in the shape of a fish's head with incised curved gill-like lines on the cheeks, a pointed face, a movable jaw, and two copper thunderbird-like ears with curled tips on top of the head. A cedar bark fringe with a twisted cedar bark border and off-white feathers are attached at the top of the mask and extend down the back. The mask is painted a metallic grey with black eyebrows, white gill-like incisions, red nostrils and lips outlined in white, silver around the eyes with two dotted lines at the bottom of the eye sockets, and black and red designs on the ears.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
cedar wood, feather, copper metal, fibre, cedar bark and paint
Made in
Blunden Harbour, British Columbia, Canada ? or Ba'as, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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