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PounderA2.454

Curved, tapering segment of translucent mottled brown musk ox horn. Area near the tip of the horn has a small indentation. The opposite end of the horn has been cut to create a flat surface.

Culture
Inuit: Inuinnait
Material
musk ox horn
Made in
Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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PounderA2.456

Curved, tapering segment of translucent yellow-brown musk ox horn. Area near the tip of the horn has been carved to create a uniform indentation. The opposite end of the horn has been cut to create a flat surface.

Culture
Inuit: Inuinnait
Material
musk ox horn
Made in
Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Trumpet Horn2663/11

Trumpet made of hollow bone wrapped with a cord and covered with a wax-like substance. The bell is of hammered copper with a brass trim. Bands of brass 2/3 in length above bell and at mouthpiece.

Culture
Tibetan
Material
copper metal, fibre and bone
Made in
Tibet
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Game1155/3

Elliptically shaped piece of leather with multiple holes cut through it. End of leather piece is tied to a long leather strip, upon which eight carved yellow-white and brown bone(?) segments are strung. The other end of the strip is tied to the looped end of a long metal needle-like object.

Culture
Plains
Material
skin, bone ? and metal
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Case2663/1 a-d

Part a is a case of heavy brown leather, rounded at the top and bottom edges with rounded protrusions below thick blue silk cord which is threaded through horizontally. Parts b-d are three tapered, hollow, brown-stained, cylindrical bone holders which are found inside case.

Culture
Tibetan
Material
leather skin, silk fibre and bone
Made in
Tibet
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Spoon1570/12

Spoon with shallow horn scoop hafted to another pointed horn. The inside surface of the bowl has incised decorations with inlaid shell and copper(?) decorations. The handle is carved in relief and also has inlaid shell decorations.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
mountain goat horn, copper metal ? and shell
Made in
British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Spoon1570/13

Horn spoon with intricately carved handle; scoop is shallow and undecorated. Handle's decoration is a hollow animal with inlaid abalone eyes and an upward protrusion that has two more inlaid circles on it sides.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
cow horn and abalone shell
Made in
British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Spoon1570/53

Spoon with shallow scoop and narrow, pointed handle. Spoon is undecorated; scoop is demarcated from handle by a sharp cut.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
mountain goat horn
Made in
British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Trumpet HornEe4.46

Trumpet like horn. One end is a large darkened bone (human?), dark brown with two holes bored through one end. The other end is capped with a metal cap with a small hole in its centre. Half of the bone towards the metal-capped end is wound in gold-coloured metal wire; running from this wire towards the other end are four decorative bands of metal with raised designs that, excepting the central band, are each set with three red and blue stones or minerals.

Culture
Himalayas
Material
bone, metal and mineral ?
Made in
Asia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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DrumEe4.45

Double-sided drum made from the tops of two skulls (human or simian), joined back to back with rawhide skin pulled over the open ends. A decorative metal band with raised patterning and red and green-coloured round stone-like objects mounted on it covers the joint in the centre. Attached to the metal band is a length of twined string with an egg-shaped, pitch-covered weight at the other end.

Culture
Himalayas
Material
bone, skin, fibre and metal
Made in
Asia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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