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DaggerIe355

A dagger with a long, tapered, brown and black bone (human? or cassowary?) blade with a modelled red clay handle in the form of a human head. The face is painted black and white and is inlaid with a cowrie shell for each eye. It has a double headband made of cowrie shells and black curly human hair adhered to the 'head'.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
human hair, cowrie shell, clay and cassowary bone ?
Made in
Korogo, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Arrow Fore-ShaftAa61

Composed of a length of bone inserted into sinew bound hollow wood sleeve and glued. It is tapered at both ends.

Culture
Khoisan ?
Material
bone, wood, sinew and adhesive
Made in
Okavango Swamps, Botswana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Arrow Fore-ShaftAa60

Composed of natural bone inserted and glued into a sinew-bound hollow wood sleeve. The length of bone tapers at both ends, and is darker at the exposed end.

Culture
Khoisan ?
Material
bone, wood, sinew and adhesive
Made in
Okavango Swamps, Botswana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Arrow Fore-ShaftAa58

Natural bone shaft, roughly circular. One edge is jagged, the other vaguely pointed.

Culture
Khoisan ?
Material
bone
Made in
Okavango Swamps, Botswana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowAa57

Bone arrow has jagged-edged and double-barbed point. The shaft is slightly bowed, tapered at each end, and wrapped with sinew halfway along its length.

Culture
Khoisan ?
Material
gemsbok bone and sinew
Made in
Botswana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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KnifeK3.7 a-b

Knife (b) and sheath (a). The knife has a dark brown bone handle that fades to off-white where it joins the blade. The blade is sharpened on both sides and tapers to point. The sheath is laced together with sinew and has a loop at the top formed by a folded piece of leather.

Culture
Ethiopian
Material
sinew, skin, bone and iron metal
Made in
Bulchi Village, Gamo-Gofa, Ethiopia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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KnifeK3.8 a-b

Knife with hand made blade and hide sheath (part b). The knife blade is sharpened on both sides and has a carved bone and pewter handle that is drilled and riveted. Both the blade and handle are incised with an inscription. The sheath is laced with fibre.

Culture
Ethiopian
Material
fibre, skin, iron metal, pewter metal and bone
Made in
Bulchi Village, Gamo-Gofa, Ethiopia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BalanceSf703

Smoothly finished, rectangular bone balance with two sets of seven punctuated and recessed circles on both of the wide, flat sides. Traces of red pigment remain on one of the end circles. Each of the short, skinny ends has a hole drilled with fragments of fibre twine in them. One hole is drilled through the width of the bar in the very centre. The two other holes are symmetrically placed at the ends and run obliquely from one narrow edge to the adjacent narrow edge.

Culture
Andes
Material
bone, cotton fibre and pigment
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Arrow PointAa116

Gemsbok bone arrowhead with a wide curved triangular head that is double barbed. Natural light brown colour. Carved to taper opposite point.

Culture
Khoisan ?
Material
gemsbok bone
Made in
Okavango Swamps, Botswana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Arrow Fore-ShaftAa115

Light brown bone, tapering at both ends. Marked darker in small patches.

Culture
Khoisan ?
Material
gemsbok bone
Made in
Botswana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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