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Carving3123/27

Tall, thin openwork carving. The carving sits on a small oval base and rises in several levels of "v" and inverted "v" shapes to a thin, roughly triangular block at top. Incorporated into the V shapes are three animal heads (bats?) with protruding cone-shaped eyes and finely carved snouts. The wood is densely grained.

Culture
Makonde
Material
wood
Made in
Tanzania ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bracelet2700/3

Oval bracelet formed from a tube of metal covered with pounded brass. Opening at one side. The outer surface of the tube is decorated with incised geometric and cross-hatch patterns. Dark metal is visible at ends.

Culture
Datoga
Material
metal and brass metal
Made in
Lake Eyasi, Arusha, Tanzania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Arrow Point2700/2

Metal arrow point with long cylindrical shaft and long barbs. Much of the shaft and some of the head have red-brown corrosion.

Culture
Hadzabi
Material
iron metal
Made in
Lake Eyasi, Arusha, Tanzania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Arrow Point2700/1

Metal arrow point with long, thin cylindrical shaft and wide-spreading barbs.

Culture
Hadzabi
Material
iron metal
Made in
Lake Eyasi, Arusha, Tanzania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceK4.101

Necklace composed of three bands of copper wire covered in alternating sections of tin and copper wire wound around each thicker wire. Copper chain tassel with coiled tin at the front.

Culture
Maasai ?
Material
copper metal ? and tin metal
Made in
Tanzania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Gaff HookK4.222

Gaff hook made of iron bent at two near right angles with a pointed tip and attached to a wooden shaft by means of fibre rope that wraps around the shaft of the hook and emerges out the side of the wooden shaft through a hole as two twined strands joined with a woven ball at the ends. The wooden shaft is cylindrical tapering towards the butt end where it flares outwards slightly. The wooden shaft is decorated with a burnt poker-work linear and dot design at the neck. Two lengths of wire are secured around the wooden shaft above and below the design.

Culture
East African
Material
wood, iron metal and fibre
Made in
Tanzania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BowK4.243

Bow composed of a cylindrical segment of wood that tapers slightly towards the rounded ends where a length of twisted skin thong is tied at a notch in the wood.

Culture
East African
Material
skin and wood
Made in
Tanzania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ClubK4.215

Club carved from a length of wood, circular in cross-section, that narrows towards the centre and has ends that each taper to a point. One end is decorated with a thick band of incised cross-hatched lines.

Culture
Maasai
Material
wood
Made in
Tanzania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceK4.100 a-d

Set of four necklaces made of coiled copper wire. Part a is roughly twice as long as the others, part b overlaps at the ends, and the gap between the ends of part c is larger than the gap of part d.

Culture
Maasai ?
Material
copper metal
Made in
Tanzania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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EarspoolK4.266

Ear ornament carved from one piece of wood. The ornament is circular and v-shaped in cross-section.

Culture
Maasai ?
Material
wood
Made in
Tanzania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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