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Doll2738/164

Flat knitted female doll with numerous Bolivian coins roughly sewn onto the front of her orange striped sweater and pink skirt. The body is an empty knitted tube, open at the back of the neck, with stuffed green legs, arms and head with facial features and long brown braids.

Culture
Bolivian
Material
wool fibre, cotton fibre, dye and copper alloy metal
Made in
Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Banner2738/54

Banner from a church with heavy embroidery in silver and copper thread onto a half-circle of rust coloured velvet. Metal discs, coils and lozenges, green and red glass beads, and silver painted metal buttons are used to depicted a lush garden filled with a variety of flowers and birds. The velvet is lined with a heavy, pale yellow checked cloth and a backing of the same material is sewn to it along the circular edge, leaving the flat bottom unstitched; three loop tabs project from the top.

Culture
Ecuadorian
Material
cotton fibre, silver metal, copper alloy metal, glass and paint
Made in
Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headdress2738/206

Chimborazo-style headdress. Canvas is stretched and sewn around a rounded, grass-rope-bound wood frame that is stuck into a flat, rectangular piece of wood and mounted with red yarn onto the top of a painted paper mache cowboy hat. Numerous small objects sewn onto the red foil that covers the canvas at the front include small framed mirrors, plastic figures, strands of plastic and metal beads, wispy feathers, and paper cards. A large metal plaque decorated with a two-headed bird is tied onto the front brim of the yellow, white, blue and red hat.

Culture
Ecuadorian
Material
wood, paper, paint, cotton fibre, wool fibre, grass fibre, copper alloy metal, metal, glass, plastic, feather, aluminium metal and adhesive
Made in
Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Musical Instrument2738/117

Percussion instrument that consists of heavy copper cowbells attached with long, twisted leather strips to a rectangular piece of thick leather.

Culture
Ecuadorian
Material
leather skin, copper alloy metal and iron metal
Made in
Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Corpus Christi Apron2738/63

Front apron from a Corpus Christi dancer's costume. Large square of orange material has woven yellow, maroon and orange waistband, is bordered on three sides with long stands of blue, yellow and green wool and a fringe of brown wool, and has peach coloured satin backing. Sewn and glued onto the front are an assortment of coins, metal buttons, metal bells, an animal tooth, plastic and glass beads, decorative motifs in wool, and silver, blue and gold paper foil stars and circles.

Culture
Ecuadorian
Material
cotton fibre, wool fibre, copper alloy metal, plastic, glass and aluminium metal
Made in
Tungurahua, Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Charm2738/122

Wood good luck charm or "figa" in the shape of a left hand clenched into a fist. The thumb is held between pointer and index fingers and all digits have silver coloured metal fingernails. Around the wrist is an embossed tin bracelet and at the end is fitted an embossed metal cap with a moveable ring in the centre.

Culture
Brazilian
Material
wood, copper alloy metal and tin metal
Made in
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Coffee Pot2734/4

Coffee pot made from an empty 400 gram net weight tin can that originally held NIDO instant milk powder. A rectangular cut in the side of the yellow and red can, with green, blue, and orange English and Arabic writing, opens into a spout, perhaps fashioned from the lid, that has been soldered on. A yellowish metal from a different can has been bent to form a large loop handle and attached with two nails to the opposite side.

Culture
Sudanese
Material
tin alloy metal, paint and metal
Made in
Khartoum, Sudan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Money2704/11

Manilla. C-shaped, round metal band, with flattened, circular ends.

Culture
West African
Material
alloy metal
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Money2704/10

Manilla. C-shaped, round, metal band, with flattened, circular ends.

Culture
West African
Material
copper alloy metal
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Money2704/9

Manilla. C-shaped, round metal band, with flattened, circular ends.

Culture
West African
Material
copper alloy metal
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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