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Brooch1590/190

Fragmented circular brooch with cutouts to form a man standing spread-eagled and holding two crossed spears.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands
Material
silver alloy metal
Made in
Canada ? or USA ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Necklace1590/300

Necklace of beads, eight beavers and a George Washington Peace Medal. Necklace strung on string. The pattern starting from the centre back to the medal at bottom centre is one clear bead, one red, one clear, 26 mottled red, a beaver, one blue, three red repeated three times, followed by one blue bead and four red. The medal is oval. Engraved on it is a tree with a First Nations man with pipe and a man of European descent. Engraved below is “George Washington, President 1793”. On the back of the medal is coat-of-arms of the United States, together with engraved motto “e pluribus unum”. Maker’s mark stamped at bottom of medal. Maker’s mark also stamped on each beaver.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands
Material
silver alloy metal, clay ?, glass ? and fibre
Made in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA2.484

Salmon with wolf centre mask. Mask is composed of a cut face of a wolf with two red pointed ears, cut out angled eyes, cut out nostrils, and slightly open cut out mouth with green hair painted around it. The animal face also forms the side-view of the body of a salmon with eyes painted grey, a red carved mouth and gill, and fins and tail painted with grey lines. Two surrounding curved wood sticks are attached to the mask along the sides with four pegs. Six black feathers are attached all around the mask through the two surrounding curved wood sticks and have a wood ornament attached at their ends, starting from the top, clock-wise: fish, fish, fish, fish, duck, and duck.

Culture
Cup'ig
Material
wood, cormorant feather, fibre and paint
Made in
Nunivak Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA2.483

Mask with male face and eleven wood ornaments. Symbolizing water, heaven, and earth. The mask is painted with stylized black eyebrow, eyelashes, moustache, and goatee. The small eyes, nostrils, and slightly open mouth with teeth, are cut out. Two surrounding curved wood sticks are attached to the mask along the sides with four pegs. Eleven black feathers are attached all around the mask through the two surrounding curved wood sticks and have a wood ornament attached at their ends, starting from the top, clock-wise: fish, peg, hand, peg, fish, foot, foot, fish, peg with fluffy white feather, hand, and peg with fluffy white feather.

Culture
Cup'ig
Material
fibre, paint, feather and wood
Made in
Mekoryuk, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA2.223

Imitation of a white man's face. Hide modelled and stretched into form of face and then dried. There is no framework. Face surrounded with white-grey hair. Dark brown hair on the forehead. White-grey hair for eyebrows. Dark brown hair for moustache and goatee. Slits cut out for the eyes which have white-grey hair for eyelashes. Slit cut out for the mouth.

Culture
Inuit
Material
caribou skin and dog skin
Made in
Juneau, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cribbage Game BoardA2.221

Main body is that of a walrus with another creature that has the walrus's tail in its mouth. Two birds, decorated with black and red, sit on top of the walrus's tail. Four sea animals carved in relief, two of which are decorated with black. On either sides of these four sea animals is a row of six sets of ten holes for the game.

Culture
Inuit
Material
walrus tusk and ink ?
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearA2.608

Toy spear. Conical point. Nail set in apex. "Alexandrovsk" printed on shaft.

Culture
Alutiiq ?
Material
wood and metal
Made in
Nanwalek, Alaska, USA ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TrapA2.463

Large flat wood piece cut into a rectangle with one end shaped with a triangular point. Above, in the middle, there is an oval wood piece with the top centre cut out and the middle hollowed out so that a wood axle with wood pegs attached by sinew at each side can be attached to create a long wood lever with a point at the end, enabling it to stand upright at an angle.

Culture
Siberian Yupik
Material
walrus tusk, wood, sinew and rawhide skin
Made in
St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SheathD2.95

A skin pouch sheath with thong strap and wooden peg in thong. Metal jingles are attached around edge of pouch. One side has a beadwork design of three shapes on a white background. The top shape is pink outlined with black and having a green triange within at the bottom. The middle shape is blue, red, and blue. The bottom shape is a black, blue, yellow, and green heart.

Culture
Crow
Material
skin, glass, wood and metal
Made in
USA ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Single Cross1590/63

Latin cross with scalloped terminals. Edges outlined in zigzag engraving. Vertical engraved with four arrows.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands
Material
silver alloy metal
Made in
Canada ? or USA ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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