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Spear2948/154

Wood and bamboo spear. The long wooden head has been carved with five pairs of perpendicular barbs and a long encircling line, filled with lime. This is inserted into a bamboo shaft and bound with woven rattan and beeswax. The shaft has been shaved towards the join and a few thin lines have been scratched just below. Near the shaft bottom are remnants of a bright blue fibre or dye.

Culture
Asmat
Material
bamboo grass, wood, rattan, bee wax ?, ochre pigment and lime pigment
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Spear2948/153

Long spear with carved bone head. The edges of the head have four barbs each, staggered, along the sides. Head is bound to a narrow wooden shaft with string and wax. The convex side has remnants of a light green dye over the middle half of the head. The wooden shaft is carved into diagonal patterns filled with lime. It is inserted into a slightly larger bamboo shaft and bound with rattan and wax. The shaft has been thinly shaved towards the join and a few thin lines have been scratched around the shaft just below this. The nodules have been shaved smooth.

Culture
Asmat
Material
bamboo grass, wood, bone, plant fibre, rattan, bee wax ?, ochre pigment and lime pigment
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headdress Ornament2948/123

Golden, bronze and chocolate-brown cassowary feathers are attached at the base to a cone of bees wax adorned with coix seeds. The base of the feathers emerge from the point of the cone and are tied together with sago leaf fibres and bast string which are attached to a 7cm-long thin, pointed piece of wood.

Culture
Asmat
Material
cassowary feather, seed, bee wax, plant fibre, sago fibre and wood
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Spear2948/167

Wood and bamboo spear. The long wooden head has four tiers with carved lines encircling the top three at the base. It is inserted into a bamboo shaft, bound with criss-crossing rattan and beeswax. A thin line is scratched around the top of the shaft three times. The bamboo’s nodules have been shaved smooth.

Culture
Asmat
Material
bamboo grass, wood, rattan, resin and bee wax ?
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Armband2948/79

A darkened armband of woven rattan fibre has a large tassel attached to a short braided rope of bast strings. The tassel consists of bees wax, coix seeds, black cassowary feathers, larger bronze-coloured feathers and long strips of rattan fibre.

Culture
Asmat
Material
plant fibre, cassowary feather, bee wax, seed and pigment
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Beaded BowlE367

A gourd fruit shell cut in half and beaded inside with a pattern of four yellow flying birds outlined with blue and orange surrounded by blue and orange flowers with green leaves on a white background.

Culture
Huichol
Material
gourd fruit, glass and bee wax
Made in
Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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CarvingNi72

Three rounded angular stacked forms on a thick circular base. At top is a series of cut-out crescents forming a scallop edge. Burnt circular holes form crescent design on top. Series of ten spaced vertical lines down sides are joined together occasionally by a diagonal line. Coloured beads pressed into beeswax form star and circle decorations around sides of each form. At centre top, circle with nine rounded extensions and interior circle. Between top and second layer are two yellow and two red pompoms attached with cord. Between second and third layers are strands of blue and orange-red yarn wrapped and knotted leaving ends free.

Culture
Huichol
Material
bee wax, glass, synthetic fibre and wood
Made in
Jalisco, Mexico and Nayarit, Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Votive BowlNi21

Interior surface of round gourd covered in beeswax and then decorated with beads. Design consists of eight yellow, blue, red, and green circles, at centre bottom, four circles of interlocking green and yellow diamonds. Two rows of red for border. Sides have four yellow, red, and black double headed frontal birds with wings extended to sides, rounded body, and triangular tail between straight legs. Opposing animals between birds at base: two four-legged red reptiles with black split tongues, red animal heads with orange whiskers, one has orange horns and the other has one light red ear. Small red and orange snake with black split tongue next to animal head with orange horns. Between birds at rim, there are two red human figures one with a dog? One orange dog. All figures on blue ground. Band of green at rim, then one row of black bordered by yellow.

Culture
Huichol
Material
gourd fruit, bee wax and glass
Made in
Jalisco, Mexico and Nayarit, Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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CarvingNi71

Carving has blue and green cone-like top with six horizontal ridges and ten vertical cuts in which red yarn has been applied with beeswax and ends join to form tassel at top of cone. Pink yarn wrapped around base of cone, with yarn knotted on either side of cone and having the ends hanging free. Red yarn wrapped beneath pink, knotted on either side of cone with ends hanging free. Below cone are five circular layers with small circular holes burnt around edges and between each layer. Four circular decorations on each layer consist of beads pressed into beeswax. Two pink and two yellow pompoms between third and fourth layers. Rounded base has five beaded decorations and a zigzag line of burnt circles.

Culture
Huichol
Material
bee wax, glass, synthetic fibre and wood
Made in
Jalisco, Mexico and Nayarit, Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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CarvingNi70

Roughly shaped stylized humanoid figure with inverted triangular head. Two upright arm-like extensions on either side of head. Body has two stacked forms with sharp v's to either side. Wide rectangular-like base. Small burnt circular holes outline all body and facial features. All beaded decorations are pressed into beeswax. At front top of head are thirteen carved notches. The deeply carved almond shaped eyes have black, red, and yellow bead pupils. The indented mouth has a double row of red beads. There is a double row of vertical red beads at base of arm on left, while red, and black beads at base of arm on right. Black and red bead cross at centre front of first body form. Circular beaded decorations: four on top of head, a row of four down each side and centre back, three at front of second body form, one at centre front base. Multiple strands of pink yarn are looped around neck, knotted at front and back, as ends hang free.

Culture
Huichol
Material
synthetic fibre, bee wax, wood and glass
Made in
Jalisco, Mexico and Nayarit, Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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