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Headdress2777/1

Colourful headdress with a turtle on mulberry fibre, wrapped around the front of a corrugated cardboard and plastic head ring covered with white fabric and decorative elements. A long blonde hair wig and pink feathers are stitched on to a frame at the back. Around and above the nose of the turtle are bands of green and red metal beads and brown shells, from the top of which project five black fabric-covered wood sticks with white shells and ivory coloured polished coconut shell rings adhered to their lengths.

Culture
Samoan
Material
paper mulberry bark, synthetic hair, feather, cotton fibre, coconut nutshell, seed, shell, grass, metal, plastic, adhesive, synthetic fibre, wood and paper
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Masmasa'lano2768/1

Portrait mask. Red, blue and black facial features and tattoo are painted onto the natural wood background. Abalone shell discs and a thin band are glued to the eyes and mouth and a thick coil of red bark rope is attached along the chin line. Long twists of dark hair and tied bundles of painted red bark strips with blue ends drape across the forehead and down the sides.

Culture
Heiltsuk
Material
cedar wood, cedar bark, human hair, paint, abalone shell, metal and epoxy adhesive
Made in
Bella Bella, British Columbia, Canada and 'Qvuqvai, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BailerUA4
Baby carrier (cradle basket)M4909
Rattle2762/37

Small hand rattle with a cork stopper in the handle shaft has stones ? inside the bulbous end. It consists of two halves, pieces of stiff, thick skin, sewn together from handle to top with thick twisted cotton threads that are knotted together at the top around a bundle of tiny twigs.

Culture
Cree
Material
rawhide skin ?, cotton fibre, stone ?, wood and cork bark
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Arrow, Seal60.1/3695
Bowl, Birch Bark50.2/4987