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ArrowC783

A plain cane shaft. Base and end of the shaft are wrapped with thin cane strips. The point is plain wood decorated with an 11 cm. sleeve of brown and yellow grass. The 20 cm. tip of the point has six irregular barbs and the very tip is wrapped cane strips.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
bone, stem ?, grass, wood and fibre
Made in
Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeadrestC522

A plain crossbar supported by two inverted "v" shaped legs.

Culture
Fijian
Material
bone ? and wood
Made in
Viti Levu, Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Spear ThrowerA7021

Intricately carved wooden spear thrower, or atlatl, with two finger holes at proximal end. A portion of the distal end is missing. The dorsal surface is incised with lines that function as a spear groove. Central form is a feather-crested lightning snake on a human figure, on the ventral surface as a weight. The figures have white inlaid eyes. The eye material appears to be bone, covered with a resin coating? The carved figure culminates in an unusual bifurcated tail. Inlaid eye is missing from right side of the human face.

Culture
Coast Salish: Swinomish ?
Material
bone ? and yew wood
Made in
Washington, USA ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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LadleA7284

A dark brown ladle that has a deep bowl and a small handle carved in the form of an animal head. The exterior of the bowl has a grooved v-line from the neck down along the sides. The animal's head has round, cream-coloured inset eyes (beads) surrounded by a plain carved circle, slight ears and forehead, a nose with nostrils, and a mouth.

Culture
Heiltsuk
Material
mountain sheep horn and bone ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HookC443

Shell shaft of the hook secured to separately carved bone barb with fibre. Tassels of hair decorate the barb end. Fibre is also lashed to the length of the shaft, from the barb and extending past the shaft ending in a bundle of excess fibre.

Culture
Tuvaluan
Material
bone, shell, fibre and hair
Made in
Tuvalu
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Breast OrnamentC529

A large rounded circular shell bordered with four pieces of bone, each of which has a toothed edge. There is a bone star at the centre.

Culture
Fijian
Material
lead metal, copper metal, whale bone and shell
Made in
Vanua Levu, Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowC880

The plain shaft is bound at the base with red and natural cane fibre. The shaft has dark geometric markings of horizontal lines above the first cane joint from the end and vertical lines above the middle joint. The end is notched. The arrow point is multi-barbed with carved splinters of bone which are attached by cane fibre wrapping to the point.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
bone, fibre ? and stem ?
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowC881

The plain cane shaft is stained a dark red-brown. The end and the base of the shaft are wrapped with cane fibre, and the base of the point is wrapped with string. The arrow is uncarved, undecorated, and it has a single barb.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
stem ?, fibre, bone and wood
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ScraperA3492

Rectangular length of bone with a blunt piece of translucent brown mineral set in one end.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
chalcedony mineral and bone
Made in
British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Soul CatcherA7961 u

Soul catcher made from one long piece of bone with both ends cut into mouth-like openings, one decorated with incised lines and bored with a small hole, the other with an incised line parallel to the opening. In the centre of the length is a squared hole that reveals a wooden peg that extends through the middle of the figure.

Culture
Gitxsan
Material
bone and wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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