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Brooch1590/193

Circular brooch with scalloped edge, raised bosses, alternate ones flanked by triangular cutouts. Row of small crescent-shaped cutouts around centre circular hole. Engraved decorations. Cross-pin secured through hole. Two stamped maker’s marks.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands
Material
silver alloy metal
Made in
Quebec, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Brooch1590/206

Heart-shaped brooch with heart-shaped central cutout and owl head above. Cross-pin secured around brooch. Crescent-shaped cutout above centre heart. Two small circular cutouts in owl head with star shape engraved between them.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands
Material
silver alloy metal
Made in
Canada ? or USA ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Brooch1590/204

Heart-shaped brooch with heart-shaped centre cutout. Top has two pointed ears. Engraved decoration and zigzag line borders. Maker’s hallmark stamped on upper right. Cross-pin secured round brooch outer edge.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands
Material
silver alloy metal
Made in
Norwalk, Connecticut, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Brooch1590/203

Silver brooch, heart-shaped, with central cutout. Top is crown-shaped with halfmoon cutouts. Cross-pin secured round brooch with band worn through. Maker’s hallmark.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands
Material
silver alloy metal
Made in
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Brooch1590/192

Circular brooch with 27 small diamond cutouts forming outer border, 9 larger diamond cutouts in inner circle and 9 oval cutouts around central circular hole. 9 stars stamped between ovals and inner diamonds. 9 Vs stamped around raised edge of centre hole. Engraved vertical lines between outer and inner diamonds. Cross-pin secured through hole in inner edge. Two stamped maker’s marks.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands
Material
silver alloy metal
Made in
Quebec, Quebec, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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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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Brooch1590/187

Circular brooch with central circular cutout and cross-pin. Outer ring of 24 small oval cutouts, middle ring of 24 crosses and inner ring of 24 circles. Engraving around the central hole. Hallmark in square cartouche below cutout design.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands
Material
silver alloy metal
Made in
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureK2.42

Standing metal figure of a crowned member of the royal court with ceremonial sword (eben) in his right hand, which is bent forward at the elbow. He is wearing armour and a helmet; stack of coral beads wrapped around his neck (odigba). His left arm is resting, bent at the elbows so that his hand can rest on the front of his dress. Stiff angular lines with a geometrical pattern of diamond-shaped lattice work on the dress. He is wearing an elaborate helmet with three protrusions sticking upward. The sword has a lanceolate shape which tapers downward and then flares outward at the end where there are two flat circles and a twisted loop. Has a brown patina. On a flat rectangular base.

Culture
Edo
Material
copper alloy metal
Made in
Nigeria
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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Brooch1590/293

Heart-shaped brooch with heart-shaped cutout and owl head at top. Cross-pin. Maker’s mark stamped on top of head.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands
Material
silver alloy metal
Made in
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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