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Mask1891.49.10 .2

Painted wooden mask representing frog or toad's head, with moveable lower jaw. [MJD 24/08/2009]

Culture
Haida
Material
wood plant alder, pigment, animal leather skin and textile
Made in
British Columbia Haida Gwaii NW Coast, Canada
Holding Institution
Pitt Rivers Museum
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Hook1923.71.44

Wooden fish hook carved with a land otter and fitted with an iron barb lashed on with sinew and spruce root. [CAK 29/06/2009]

Culture
Haida
Material
wood, iron metal, spruce root plant ?, animal sinew ? and string ?
Made in
British Columbia Haida Gwaii Massett, Canada
Holding Institution
Pitt Rivers Museum
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Hook1954.9.77

Wooden fish hook with bone point lashed on with cedar bark. A length of nettle fibre twine is tied to the hook and wound around it. [LM 18/06/2007]

Culture
Haida Makah ?
Material
animal sinew, bone, cedar bark, yew wood plant and nettle fibre plant ?
Made in
“British Columbia Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands); ?Washington Neah Bay” ?
Holding Institution
Pitt Rivers Museum
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Apron1891.49.16

Shaman's dance apron made of wool textile and decorated with puffin beaks and quillwork and/or woven plant material. [CAK 06/04/2010]

Culture
Haida
Material
wool textile animal, puffin beak bird, animal hide skin, quill ?, grass fibre plant ?, bark fibre plant ? and plant root ?
Made in
British Columbia Haida Gwaii NW Coast, Canada
Holding Institution
Pitt Rivers Museum
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Box1952.5.39 .1 - .2

Bentwood box [.1] painted with bird designs and lid [.2] inlaid with shell. [CAK 08/02/2010]

Culture
Haida Haisla ?
Material
cedar wood plant, pigment, operculum shell, animal leather skin, spruce root plant and iron metal
Made in
British Columbia Haida Gwaii, Canada ?
Holding Institution
Pitt Rivers Museum
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Blanket1908.63.1

Blanket of black wool with red wool border and three rows of small mother of pearl buttons on three sides. [CAK 17/08/2009]

Culture
Haida
Material
wool textile animal, pearl shell and cotton yarn plant
Made in
British Columbia Haida Gwaii Masset NW Coast, Canada
Holding Institution
Pitt Rivers Museum
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Amulet1891.49.110

Amulet comprised of two boar tusks bound in a circular shape with a sea lion tooth suspended on a long piece of string. [CAK 22/06/2009]

Culture
Haida
Material
boar tooth animal ?, pig tooth animal ?, ivory, tooth, cotton yarn plant and pigment
Made in
Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
Pitt Rivers Museum
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Apron2790/3

Beaded hide apron with straight top and five scalloped panels hanging along the bottom. A blackened flap of skin at the waist is folded over a stiffer tie (skin or fibre?), stitched and coiled with white beads, and edged with a band of white and blue beadwork that has a hanging chain of red blue, yellow and white beads at the centre. A blue bead trim runs around the edge of the thick horizontal and vertical bands of beads that form a white ground with green, pink, blue. black, orange and yellow house designs in the centre and on two of the panels.

Culture
Ndebele
Material
cotton fibre, animal skin and glass
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Apron2790/4

Heavy square canvas apron with beadwork decoration on the front. Canvas is rolled and stitched at the top edge to create a waist band, across which are stitched four strings of large white beads and through which is knotted one skin tie. A thick blue bead trim runs around the edge of the horizontal bands of beads that form a white ground, with non-beaded negative spaces at the top and dark blue, green, purple and black house designs at the bottom.

Culture
Ndebele
Material
plastic, cotton fibre, glass and animal skin
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drum2004-2/147

Spirit of the Ancestors-Kaht Ku'uss means people. Since the first contact with Europeans in the late 18th century, this has been generally used to mean First Nations peoples.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Ditidaht
Material
wood, animal skin, sinew, leather, string and paint
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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