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Unfinished Necklace3123/48

Seven thick glass beads strung on a long copper wire. The beads are roughly cut, some with a bright sheen, others dull, tubular in shape, with flat ends. Colouring is light grey with irregular lines of dark blue. A single bead at one end is thinner than the rest, and includes a dark red stripe. The copper wire extends well beyond the beads, knotted and twisted back on itself.

Culture
African
Material
glass and copper metal
Made in
Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Necklace3123/47

Necklace of thick glass beads strung on a metal wire. The beads are roughly cut, most are dull in sheen, tubular in shape, with flat ends. Colouring is mottled green with irregular lines of dark purple. A single bead at front centre is round, light brown-grey, with uneven stripes of brown and black. Necklace sits in a rounded position due to the shape of the wire, and closes with a hook and loop.

Culture
African
Material
glass and metal
Made in
Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Necklace3123/46

Necklace of thick glass beads strung on a cord of plant fibre. Beads are roughly cut with a dull sheen. Top portion of necklace is filled with tubular beads in a light grey-brown with stripes of blue and red-brown. Bottom front of necklace is made of slightly larger beads, also tubular with an uneven surface, in colours of blue, primarily, with stripes of yellow and green, as well as some orange beads and yellow beads also with stripes.

Culture
African
Material
glass and plant fibre
Made in
Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Necklace3123/44

Round beaded neck ring. Necklace consists of eight to nine strands of small glass beads strung on wire, placed in alternating blocks of colour: dark blue, white, and light blue, each with a line in a different colour at both ends of the block: white, dark blue, light blue, yellow or red. Each colour block is separated from the next by a thick strip of leather. Around the interior of the necklace is a line of larger plastsic beads, round, and coloured light green. Closing mechanism is a hook of wire. A piece of tagging is attached to one leather thong by green string.

Culture
East African ?
Material
glass, plastic, metal and skin
Made in
East Africa, Africa ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Necklace3123/43

Round beaded neck ring. Necklace consists of eleven strands of small glass beads strung on wire and placed in encircling rows, becoming successively smaller in size toward the centre. Colours are a row of light blue on the outside, one row dark red, two rows green, one row red, two rows white, two rows dark blue, and finishing with two rows of red on the interior. Wire is placed intermittently across the rows to hold beads firmly in place. Two strips of leather also serve this purpose, and one holds a small string of twisted cotton.

Culture
East African ?
Material
glass, metal, skin, cotton fibre and plastic
Made in
East Africa, Africa ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Belt3103/26

Thin belt adorned with beads and shells. Decorations form a repeating pattern of red beads and rawhide strips, framing two rows of shells, with a row of green beads in the middle. Tassels of red beads, shells and rawhide tied to one end. Belt fastens with a button made from a slice of antler.

Culture
Dene
Material
dentalium shell, rawhide skin, glass ? and antler
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basketry3100/13 a-b

Basketry-wrapped glass bottle and lid. Bottle (part a) is tall, flaring from base to shoulder, with a long thin neck. It is fully covered in finely woven basketry, with colourful images of ducks, sea creatures, boats and hunters worked into the weave, interspersed with decorative lines. The lid is plastic, and adhered to the bottle, with a loose basketry cover (part b) made of the same weave as the bottle cover, with a red encircling line and brown top.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Huu-ay-aht
Material
dye, glass, grass and plastic
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Lamp2990/838 a-b

Spanish style glass lamp with ovoid body, tubular spout, concave-ring base and vertical bands painted on in yellow and grey. Unbroken. Part b is the gilt bronze bell-shaped lid. Circle decorations at rim with hole in the interior and one suspension lug at middle of body. Lid is corroded and incomplete.

Culture
Peruvian
Material
glass, bronze metal and paint
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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White Heart3113/2 a-d

Tall glass sculpture with three cedar mount parts. A tall glass cylinder (part a), rounded at top and bottom, is the central piece in the sculpture, representing a trade bead. Its under-layer is frosted white, covered by a red frosted cut-out layer in swooping patterns and dots. It sits on a low, round cedar base (part b), carved along the edge, with a mat of woven cedar bark at centre. A hole in the middle supports a wood pole (part d) that extends throught the glass cylinder and is capped at top by small wooden lid (part c), carved similarly to the base.

Culture
Coast Salish: Stz'uminus
Material
glass, yellow cedar wood, cedar bark and paint
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shawl Pin3097/75

Shawl pin with peacock decoration on top of a blue glass gem and engraved with foliage motif. Three dangling metal charms with knife, bowl and bird designs.

Culture
Bolivian
Material
silver alloy metal and glass
Made in
Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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