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Feast Dish LidA2522

Dzunuk'wa (or Tsonoqua) figure with pursed lips and heavy eyebrows. The feast dish lid is painted black with white outlining the eyebrows, brown around the red-rimmed eye holes, white bordering the eye sockets, red nostrils bordered around the top with white, brown bordered with white under the cheeks and down the sides of the jaw, red at the temples, and red on the lips.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
red cedar wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Wolf HeaddressNb11.279

Wolf headdress is natural in colour with a long blunt red snout that curves upward showing carved white teeth. The white oval eye with a rounded slit in relief is enclosed in a black oval outline. Above each eye is a black band. The ears are red, B-like in shape and attached to the headdress with adhesive. The fringe on the top of the mask is made of black and white tufts of fibre.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Ditidaht
Material
cedar wood, paint, fibre and adhesive
Made in
Neah Bay, Washington, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model Totem PoleNb11.239

Model totem pole with four figures, all mounted on a rectangular wooden base. Figures from bottom up: wolf, human holding fish-like animal, bird. Bottom figure is torso only, with head of wolf; large teeth, long snout, erect ears. Clothed human figure with facial paint on cheeks and painted moustache; has deep prismatic face with pronounced brow ridge; man's feet rest on wolf's head, almost forming ears; fish in his hands extends down to feet. Bird figure above has folded wings and ears. Back of pole is flat. Fragment of newspaper clipping about totem poles is glued on reverse.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
metal, paint and cedar wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureNb3.1331

Standing figure with splayed legs and bent knees. Block-shaped feet, and prominent square-like head. Black-painted arm sockets appear as protruding sections, as if arms behind back. Face and body painted in black, white, and grey-blue. Face has white spotted sections on cheeks and jaw, and line of black dots under eyes. White and grey-blue paint on middle of chest and around belly, top of legs, and around ankles. Small black circle at centre of breast. Protruding brow, open mouth turned down at corners, recessed eye area, one ear on the right side.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
paint and cedar wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model Totem PoleNb11.240

Model totem pole with four figures, all mounted on a rectangular wooden base. Figures from top to bottom: eagle with spread wings, whale, bear and an eagle from the torso up. Pole on a camphor edged base. Carvings are exceptionally high relief with minimal modeling. Background painted blue, beige and yellow. Figures painted dark blue with yellow, beige, purple. Paint irregularly applied throughout. Spread wings of top bird are solid wood with roughly painted blue and beige lines to suggest feathers. Back of pole is flat. Newspaper clipping about totem poles is glued on reverse.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
cedar wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bentwood BoxA7450 a-b

Tall square bentwood box (part a) with a slightly flared lid (part b). The front and back are painted red and black in different Northwest Coast stylized distributive designs. The front and back have complex designs. The side panels are painted with a black ovoid with a red line attached at the top right and bottom left corners. Box is adzed, kerfed, steamed, bent, last corner pegged, bottom pegged and nailed. The lid has traces of black paint and made of a single piece of wood.

Culture
Tsimshian ?
Material
red cedar wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bentwood BoxA3573 a-b

Tall square bentwood box (part a) with flat lid (part b). The front and back are painted red and black in different Northwest Coast stylized distributive designs. The front figure has bird-like features with a central circle for a beak and talons along the outer edge. The back also has bird-like features with a crest made of u and split u-forms. The side panels have a faded red design of an ovoid with two u-forms attached near the bottom left corner. The box is pegged together at the side seam and on the bottom.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
cedar wood, paint and metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HatA3239

Basketry hat with painted designs and a flared brim. The warps are made of red cedar bark and a small square of checkerboard plaiting is present at the top. The hat is woven of triangle sedge grass, using double strand twining. The warps are divided after several rows and the weaving becomes finer. Green-dyed grass has been used in several areas as an accent combined with the use of three strand twining. The painted design is of a male figure with hands upraised, flanked on either side by fish or whale figures. The paint is a dark green colour and badly faded. The rim of the hat is finished with dyed grass and a black yarn-like material. The hat has a cap-shaped liner woven into its interior. The liner is diagonally twined.

Culture
Tsimshian ?
Material
cedar bark, sedge grass, paint and fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA5301 a-f

Human mask (part a) with a hat (b) and a large, rotating, hand-like attachment protruding from crown of hat (f). Mask also has dangling ear pendants (c-d), addition red mouthpiece (e), and attached cedar bark hair. Painted red, black and white.

Culture
Gitxsan
Material
cedar bark, wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Box DrumA17091

Box drum composed of bent cedar and painted in black, red and white with a copper on each opposite side and an eagle on each opposite end. An indented circle is carved into each end wall on the inside of the drum.

Culture
Coast Salish: Quwutsun'
Material
cedar wood, metal and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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