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Arm Ornament2948/53
Two boar tusks are tightly bound with rattan through single holes drilled through the root ends; tips are held widely apart. They are dark in colour and show evidence of drill holes at ends.
- Culture
- Asmat
- Material
- boar tusk and plant fibre
- Made in
- Papua, Indonesia
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
Arm Ornament2948/52
Two boar tusks drilled at both ends, tied together through single holes at the root end with bast string. Two separate bast strings are looped through the holes at the tip ends, each knotted several times.
- Culture
- Asmat
- Material
- boar tusk and plant fibre
- Made in
- Papua, Indonesia
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
Teeth And Boar Tusks16/818 A-H
- Culture
- Haida
- Material
- boar tooth
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
- Holding Institution
- American Museum of Natural History
Arm Ornament2948/58
Ornament made from boar tusks. Two semi-circular boar tusks tied together at each end with light brown cane-like grass strips, to form a circular ornament. Two holes have been bored through each end of the tusks to insert the ties. The exterior of the ornament is white with dark brown grooves and dots. The interior of the ornament is dark brown. The interior of the tusks is visible at one end of the ornament and is of a dark brown colour. One side of the ornament is smaller in diameter than the other side due to the shape of the tusks.
- Culture
- Asmat
- Material
- boar tusk and plant fibre
- Made in
- Papua, Indonesia
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
Ariki - Futunese Tribal Governing System2832/1
Ceramic pot with three vertical protrusions coming out of the top. The pot is round and glazed in multiple hues of brownish-grey. The pot is topped with three protrusions, into which three sanded and stained wood branch-like pieces (two slightly curved and one bent and curved at an angle between the other two) have been inserted and wrapped at their bases with light brown braided natural fibre twine. Each "branch" is topped with a curved wild-boar tusk.
- Culture
- Futunese
- Material
- clay, boar tusk, fibre, glaze and wood
- Made in
- Futuna, Tafea, Vanuatu
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
Mbu Walg Kupun II2805/1
Large contemporary woven string bag (bilum) decorated with dyed stripes, different types of shells, chicken feathers, wooden beads, branches with seeds, small fan-shapes made of cut-up plastic packages, possum jaws, boar tusks and pieces of tapa cloth.
- Culture
- New Guinea: Kapia Ulgu
- Material
- plant fibre, paper mulberry bark, wood, seed, cowrie shell, chicken feather, plastic, jute fibre, possum jaw bone, natural dye, boar tusk, clam shell and oyster shell
- Made in
- Goroka, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
Amulet1891.49.117 .1 - .3
Amulet consisting of a boar's tusk [.3] with two long thin pieces of bone [.1-.2] strung together. [CAK 27/05/2009]
- Culture
- Haida
- Material
- boar tooth animal, animal bone and string
- Made in
- British Columbia Haida Gwaii NW Coast, Canada
- Holding Institution
- Pitt Rivers Museum
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
Gambling Sticks | Gambling Bag1381
The paint is red and black.
- Culture
- Tlingit: Stikine
- Material
- wood, paint, skin, caribou, tusk and boar
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
NecklaceC569 a-b
A circular boar's tusk drilled at the larger end and held by coiled vegetable fibres. The tusk has more than a 360 degree curve.
- Culture
- Fijian
- Material
- fibre and boar tusk
- Made in
- Vanua Levu, Fiji
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia