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ToggleNa1068

A brown white object with one side concave while the other is flat. The ends of the object are rounded and a hole is drilled in middle.

Culture
Inuit
Material
bone ?
Made in
Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ToggleNa1067

A brown white crescent-shaped object with rounded ends. Hole drilled in centre of inner curve.

Culture
Inuit
Material
bone ?
Made in
Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ContainerAd53

Small cylindrical bone container. Both ends are fitted with leather lids. Grass tie on one end. Blue nylon cord pierced onto end with no grass tie. Both ends are concave. Bone area has two dark horizontal lines etched around approximately 1.5 cm. apart.

Culture
Kamba
Material
bone, grass, nylon fibre and leather skin
Made in
Kenya
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ToolNa1064 a-e

Double layer of stiff white rawhide stitched together on all sides except the top where there are two dark brown loops. Darker leather, stitched on halfway down rawhide, has five slits cut through to hold four bone tools. Two brown white coloured tools, round, slightly curved, pointed at one end with a lip at the other, are joined together with leather thong. Two other tools are brown, each have a lip at their top, and a round shaft which flattens and curves then tapers to a point.

Culture
Inuit
Material
rawhide skin, sinew and bone
Made in
Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ToolNa1059

Half-moon-shaped object is pointed at one end and polished; the rest is dull and has a yellowish colour. Two drilled holes through object are strung with orange cord held in place by pegs. Three bone chips hang from cord. Near hole is 5.5 cm. Piece has rounded end with drilled hole looped with two cords. The four cord ends are tied to a long, much thicker cord. On its end is a strip of horn, attached by being bent over the cord and lashed down.

Culture
Inuit
Material
bone, horn ?, cotton fibre and bear tooth
Made in
Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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PipeSe143

Conical bowl with engraved triangular pattern at outer rim, two parallel incised lines near join with mouthpiece, and carved extension at bottom. Dark brown exterior with blackened interior and roughly carved to a depth of about two-thirds of bowl length. Mouthpiece joined near centre of side of bowl with join surrounded by cord. Tube of bone slightly curved. The join is not perpendicular to the vertical axis of the bowl.

Culture
Shipibo
Material
wood and bone
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureA2594

Curved piece of bone incised and carved with the figure of a sea creature, its head forming the top of the piece and the body most of the length. The lower end has the head and body of a human-like form. The creature has rounded bulging eyes and a large open mouth, six horizontal ridges across the top of its head, and four long scale-like features around its neck. The upper portion of the body has an incised grid-like pattern while the lower portion has a crescent-rib-shaped-like pattern. Horizontal ridges go along across the back. The human-like form has oval eyes with thick brows above, a flat triangular nose, and a thin closed mouth while the arms rest at either side.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
whale bone
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Halibut HookA2434

Wooden barbed fish hook. Roughly v-shaped, with bone barb projecting downward from the tip of one arm toward the junction of the two. The other arm is in the shape of a bird, with a hole bored through its back. The two separate arms are bound together at one end with split root and cotton cord.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
wood, cotton fibre, bone and root
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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CombA2472

Six polished flat bone teeth inset in a thick wood handle which is roughly triangular in shape and tapers toward the butt end where it terminates in a knob with a large v-shaped notch cut out that is also drilled with a hole. Deep depressions on the sides of the handle are decorated with incised diagonal crosses.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
cedar wood and bone
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Seal Puller LineNa977

Seal puller with handles curved at the ends and the middle to fit a hand. A hole is drilled in the middle through which a leather thong is tied.

Culture
Inuit
Material
walrus tusk and leather skin
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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