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Painted Shell1042/18 a-b

Cream coloured clam shell. Polished natural exterior. Splits in two: part a and part b. Interior is predominantly gold. Both part a and part b have painted images of two containers or sacks(?) and a barrel.

Culture
Japanese
Material
clam shell and paint
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Painted Shell527/20

An oval shell painted on the inside with a stylized yellow, red, black, and white fish on a black background with a rim of yellow rectangles that have a red centre and are outlined with black and have a red circle at either sides.

Culture
Northwest Coast ?
Material
clam shell and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Painted Shell1042/21 a-b

Cream coloured clam shell. Polished natural exterior. Splits in two: part a and part b. Interior is predominantly gold. Both part a and part b have painted images of leaves, flower buds(?) and a fence(?).

Culture
Japanese
Material
clam shell and paint
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Painted Shell1042/19 a-b

Cream coloured clam shell. Polished natural exterior. Splits in two: part a and part b. Interior is predominantly gold. Both part a and part b have painted images of small white bird sitting on a branch near water(?).

Culture
Japanese
Material
clam shell and paint
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeadbandIe408

A band of brown string wound over wood, tapering to two arms with loops, one fitted through the other. The top feathers are red, green, yellow, white, blue, and grey and decorate the wide part. Cowrie shells line the lower edge. Below, on strings, there are hanging two lines of small cowries, two single cowrie shells and two fragments of other shells.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood, parrot feather, clam shell ?, cowrie shell and nettle fibre
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceA17178

Necklace made of small grey/white circular pieces of clam shells with holes drilled in centre for stringing. The shells are strung on a black piece of cotton thread tied at each end.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
clam shell and cotton fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceA17181

Clam shells cut to a circular form, smoothed and drilled for stringing; stung in a circle on black string.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
fibre and clam shell
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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OrnamentC165

A flat, white shell disc with a carved tortoise shell attached to the top of the shell by the twisted fibre string. Tortoise shell has a bilaterally symmetrical pierced design that consists of five tapering ovals with four radiating lines below.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
tortoise shell, fibre and clam shell
Made in
Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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OrnamentC170

A wide, circular piece of white shell, carved in a bracelet-like shape.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
clam shell
Made in
New Georgia, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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OrnamentC171

Undecorated, round, white shell band.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
clam shell ?
Made in
New Georgia, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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