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Bolster Cloth2787/25

Long bolster cover. Rectangle of pale green cotton cloth has a shiny border stitched to sides and ends made of strips of the same fabric with songket supplementary weft design in gold covered thread.

Culture
Sumatran
Material
cotton fibre, gold metal and natural dye
Made in
Sumatra, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ceremonial Cloth2787/12

Ceremonial outer skirt cloth. Songket style, multi-coloured orange and red checked cotton with gold continuous and discontinuous weft patterns and motifs.

Culture
Balinese
Material
cotton fibre, gold metal and dye
Made in
Bali, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ceremonial Cloth2787/28

Ceremonial skirt cloth (saput). Long maroon coloured cloth, hand woven on a back strap loom with discontinuous warp. The natural dyed silk is single sided and weft faced. Alternating rows of hand wrapped gold and silver thread designs decorate the central panel, framed within a gold border.

Culture
Balinese
Material
silk fibre, natural dye, gold metal, silver metal and cotton fibre ?
Made in
Bali, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ceremonial cloth2787/9

Ceremonial cloth in of songket brocade. Warp is red cotton, weft is purple silk, and the continuous and discontinuous supplementary weft is gold wrapped cotton thread. The centre motif of a traditional adat house is flanked by four karabau, or buffalo heads. The framing border of alternating gold filled squares and purple squares with crosses is thicker at the corners.

Culture
Minangkabau
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre, gold metal and dye
Made in
Sumatra, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Altar Cloth2787/21

Ceremonial altar cloth (tok wi). Long rectangle of green silk with imbedded floral patterning is hemmed on three edges and has a border sewn along the fourth edge, consisting of three different strips of fabric hand embellished with couching techniques and embroidery in gold, silver and blue thread. Two edges are lined at the back with strips of an orange coloured silk.

Culture
Chinese: Peranakan
Material
silk fibre and gold metal
Made in
Java, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Earring1-1568
Ring (Jewelry)1-1565
Earring1-1562
Fish HookH1.342 a-d

Three gold plated fish hooks (parts a-c). The hooks are currently tied with yellow thread to a square piece of cardboard (part d) titled ‘Gold Fishhooks’.

Culture
Andes
Material
gold metal
Made in
Colombia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Wolf Pendant2776/1

Three-dimensional wolf head pendant carved from yew on a leather chain. Pendant has inlaid abalone squares around outside edge, and ovals as eyes and inlaid pieces around outer ear edges. Features around lips, inner ears and negative space of pendant are painted red. Copper cut-outs used as eyebrows, sides of nose, tongue, inner ears and claws of front feet. There are also very small circles of copper inlaid between the abalone along the edge. A fine braided leather chain with a gold clasp is attached through a gold fixture on the back of the pendant. Back has seven small holes, six of which contain copper rivets; artist signature Reid-'77.

Culture
Haida
Material
leather skin, gold metal, yew wood, abalone shell, copper metal and paint
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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