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BootsCg53 a-b

Ankle-high brown fur boots with pointed, upturned toes. Blue cloth trim around top of boot, underneath which is sewn a wide bands of red fabric with geometric designs in blue and yellow. Boots lace up at the top; red, blue and white braided woolen cord with tassels at the ends.

Culture
Sami
Material
reindeer skin, wool fibre ? and dye
Made in
Kautokeino, Norway
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ShoeEdz1600

Single bound-foot shoe. Shoe has a rounded, raised heel and is roughly triangular in shape, narrowing to a point in the toe. Fabric extends around the sides and toe of the shoe, but is open along the top of the foot. Fabric around the sides of the shoe is red-pink, covered with multicoloured floral embroidery, and trimmed with black brocade; two strips of patterned fabric--green and white, respectively--are sewn beneath the black trim. Fabric used on the raised portion of the heel and the bottom of the shoe is a pearlescent white. Interior fabric is a light pink. The back of the heel is covered with a rectangular piece of red-pink brocade with patterned black and blue borders trimmed with black cloth.

Culture
Chinese
Material
silk fibre, wood ? and dye
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shoes399/1 a-b

Pair of bound-foot shoes. Shoes have a raised heel and are roughly triangular in shape, narrowing to a point in the toe. Fabric covers the sides and toes of the shoes, with an extra rectangular piece of fabric extending up the back of the ankle; shoes are open along the top of the foot. Thin, twined cord laces back and forth across the back of the heel. Shoe is covered with orange-red fabric with blue piping along the upper edge and multicoloured floral embroidery radiating from the toe. Heel is covered with white brocade featuring multicoloured figures; grey and maroon piping line the top and bottom of the heel, respectively. The material extending up the ankle is a light lilac colour, with a matching fabric strap looped at either side.

Culture
Chinese
Material
silk fibre, wood, skin and dye
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ShoesEdz1621 a-b

Pair of bound-foot shoes. Shoes have a wedge heel and are roughly triangular in shape, narrowing to a point in the toe. Fabric extends up the heel and ankle, around the sides and toe of the shoe, but is open along the top of the foot and ankle. Fabric used on the heel and foot is light green, trimmed with red, and covered with intricate, multicoloured floral embroidery. Fabric up the back of the ankle is a lilac floral brocade with wide bands of black cloth sewn around the top. A wide loop of red shoelace is sewn on either side of the ankle fabric.

Culture
Chinese
Material
silk fibre, cotton fibre, leather skin ?, wood and dye
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Moccasins778/1 a-b

Pair of moccasins with layered bands of leather, purple cloth and red cloth with a green beaded fringe around the ankles. Covered with beading; dark blue, light blue, and red-brown geometrical shapes on a white ground. Extended tongues with bifurcated ends resembling a rabbit's ears. Moccasins are joined together by a leather tie attached at the back of either heel.

Culture
Plains
Material
skin, glass, fibre and dye
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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LoomEe3 a-h

Vertical loom with a partially completed weaving attached to it. Eight parts: partially woven red cotton with decorative panel (part a); bamboo rod (part b); wooden rod (part c); wooden rod (part d); bamboo rod (part e); flat wooden piece (part f); bobbin covered with red thread (part g); dark, flat wooden piece (part h).

Culture
Himalayas
Material
cotton fibre, bamboo grass, dye and wood
Made in
Siang, Arunachal Pradesh, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TextileB695

Large, rectangular, red-brown woven textile entirely covered with geometric pattern darning embroidery. Embroidery is executed with iridescent white, orange, yellow, and light green thread. Design consists primarily of alternating horizontal bands of white and orange chevron patterning with borders running along both lengthwise edges. One border is thin, with orange thread creating a simple diamond-shaped pattern; the other border is wide, with more elaborate diamond-shaped patterning in white, orange and green thread.

Culture
North India
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre and dye
Made in
Punjab, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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DrumEh171

Drum made from a cylindrical wooden frame. Skin is stretched over each end with strips of skin that run from end to end. The wood has alternating thin and thicker incised bands that have been painted black, and the wood is varnished. There is a red fabric strap attached through skin loops at either end.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
wood, dye, fibre, skin, lacquer and paint
Made in
Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketK4.204 a-b

Basket (b) and lid (a) made from coiled palm leaf with dyed black palm leaf in a ring on the lid, and alternating with natural palm leaf near the rim of the base with a thick band of black woven palm leaf in warp and weft weaving interspersed with bands of palm leaves running vertically. Overall rounded shape.

Culture
Barotse
Material
palm leaf and dye
Made in
Zambia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeaddressA3685

Headdress representing a wolf's head with a long snout, pronounced nostrils, a movable lower jaw, protruding rounded ears, and a bent branch frame at the back. Painted black with red nostrils and lips, black rectangles on the top lip, green around the eyes, white lines delineating the eyebrows and edges of the eye sockets, white designs on the ears, and a white strip down the top of the snout to the back of the head. The underside of the lower jaw is painted with a design in black. There are rectangular recesses in the eyebrows, presumably for shell inserts. Small holes in the sides of the snout.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, fibre, paint and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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