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Dish3182/7

Painted gourd dish. Large, deep dish is light with a very thin wall, with an irregular shape at the rim. From a rounded bottom the dish flares widely toward the mouth. Vessel is painted a shiny black on both interior and exterior, with an incised decoration in a wide strip around the midpoint. Pattern is sets of concentric circles, cut in half, lining the top and bottom of the strip on its interior, with diagonal lines cutting through to their midpoints. The decoration is unpainted, and left a raw light brown.

Culture
Brazilian: Ribeirinho
Material
gourd fruit and paint
Made in
Santarem, Para, Brazil
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dish3182/6

Painted gourd dish. Dish is light with a very thin wall, oblong in shape at the rim, with a slightly concave area at the shoulder on one side. From a rounded bottom the dish flares widely toward the mouth. Vessel is painted a shiny black on both interior and exterior, with an incised decoration in a wide strip around the midpoint. Pattern is sets of concentric circles, cut in half, lining the top and bottom of the strip on its interior, with diagonal lines cutting through to their midpoints. The decoration is unpainted, and left a raw light brown.

Culture
Brazilian: Ribeirinho
Material
gourd fruit and paint
Made in
Santarem, Para, Brazil
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dish3182/5

Painted gourd dish. Dish is light with a very thin wall, oblong in shape at the rim, with a slightly concave area at the shoulder on one side. From a rounded bottom the dish flares widely toward the mouth. Vessel is painted a shiny black on both interior and exterior, with an incised decoration in a wide strip around the rim. Pattern is sets of concentric circles, cut in half, lining the top and bottom of the strip on its interior, with diagonal lines cutting through to their midpoints. The decoration is unpainted, and left a raw light brown.

Culture
Brazilian: Ribeirinho
Material
gourd fruit and paint
Made in
Santarem, Para, Brazil
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dish3182/4

Painted gourd dish. Dish is light with a very thin wall, shallow, and of an oblong shape. From a rounded bottom the dish flares widely toward the rim. Vessel is painted a shiny black on both interior and exterior, with an incised decoration in a wide strip around the rim. Pattern is sets of concentric circles, cut in half, lining the top and bottom of the strip on its interior, with diagonal lines cutting through to their midpoints. The decoration is unpainted, and left a raw light brown.

Culture
Brazilian: Ribeirinho
Material
gourd fruit and paint
Made in
Santarem, Para, Brazil
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cup3182/3

Painted gourd cup. Cup is light with a very thin wall, tall and relatively narrow. Bottom is round, and mouth angles in slightly. Vessel is painted a shiny black on both interior and exterior, with an incised decoration in a wide strip around the midpoint. Pattern is sets of concentric circles, cut in half, lining the top and bottom of the strip on its interior, with diagonal lines cutting through to their midpoints. The decoration is unpainted, and left a raw light brown.

Culture
Brazilian: Ribeirinho
Material
gourd fruit and paint
Made in
Santarem, Para, Brazil
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hair OrnamentAa152 a-g

Long beaded fragment (part a) on fibre strand consisting predominantly of white beads and interspersed with red and blue beads. Fragments of brown-orange gourd fruit from largest to smallest (part b, c, d, e, f, and g).

Culture
Khoisan ?
Material
gourd fruit, glass and fibre
Made in
Botswana ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Decorated Gourd2918/2 a-b

Small container with lid, made out of a hollowed gourd. The gourd (part a) is decorated with elaborate carvings of harvest scenes, musicians playing outside a building, fruit picking in an orchard, women talking. Two panels showing a stylized frog divide the scenes. The base of the gourd is decorated with carved geometric designs. The lid (part b) is cut out of the gourd and is convex, bulging in the centre where a stem would be. It is decorated as a stylized flower.

Culture
Peruvian
Material
gourd fruit
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Decorated Gourd2918/1 a-b

Small container with lid, made out of a hollowed gourd. The gourd (part a) is decorated with elaborate carvings of musicians and dancing, and travellers with donkies. Trees, birds, flowers and huts appear in the background. Six small panels, three on each side, show small animal creatures with arms out-stretched. The base and lid of the gourd are decorated with matching carved geometric designs. The lid (part b) is cut out of the gourd and is convex, rounding toward the centre where a stem would be.

Culture
Peruvian
Material
gourd fruit
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Stringed Musical Instrument3123/31

Stringed musical instrument. A long squared neck of wood, carved with several sets of diagonal lines, pierces the top of a round, hollow gourd, emerging as a short peg on the opposite side. Two long wood pins pierce the neck, each holding a metal string that stretch to make contact with a small wood bridge on the gourd, and extend to wrap around the peg. The bridge is glued to a piece of skin stretched over a large hole in the top of the gourd, attached with small wood pins. Gourd is decorated with carved lines in the shape of foliage.

Culture
Bamana ? or Fulani ?
Material
gourd fruit, wood, metal, skin and adhesive
Made in
West Africa, Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headdress3123/29 a-i

Horned cap-like headdress. Helmet (part a) is made of half a rounded gourd, with rows of cowrie shells evenly sewn on in concentric circles, nearly covering the outer surface. Two long, curving horns, heavily ridged, emerge from the top of the headdress, tips pointing inward toward each other. (One horn--part b--can be removed.) From the rim of the gourd hangs a chin strap of braided tan and black leather with a leather tassel painted with black lines attached at centre along side a long, thin strap of leather covered on one side with cowrie shells, ending in a similar tassel . Parts 'c' through 'i' are similar strips that are detached from the headdress.

Culture
West African
Material
gourd fruit, cowrie shell, antelope horn ?, skin and cotton fibre
Made in
Nigeria ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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