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ArrowAa117

Part of main shaft of arrow. A length of hollow reed which is blackened with glue and bound with sinew at one end. A small wooden notched plug is inserted in this end.

Culture
Khoisan ?
Material
reed grass and sinew
Made in
Okavango Swamps, Botswana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureEdz943

Multicoloured rice flour paste figure of the deity monkey; left leg is lifted, left hand over brow. He is holding a yellow staff of paste over bamboo behind his back (9cm. Long). Figure is mounted on a bamboo stick which is embellished with rice flour paste flowers with leaves.

Culture
Chinese
Material
rice flour paste adhesive, bamboo grass and aniline dye
Made in
Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureEdz942

Figure of goddess Kuan Yin, seated on a pink lotus with green leaves, of rice flour paste. White robe, multi-coloured headdress. Hands in prayer position. Mounted on bamboo stick.

Culture
Chinese
Material
bamboo grass, aniline dye and rice flour paste adhesive
Made in
Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureEdz941

Multicoloured rice flour paste figure of Kuan-ti with spear halberd at his back of paste over bamboo sticks, carrying a book in his left hand. Cracked due to drying and partially eaten by insects. Mounted on a bamboo stick.

Culture
Chinese
Material
rice flour paste adhesive, bamboo grass and aniline dye
Made in
Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureEdz940

Multicoloured rice paste figure of a phoenix, with large striped tail. Mounted on bamboo stick which is embellished with four rice flour paste flowers with leaves. Somewhat cracked due to drying, with a little black mold.

Culture
Chinese
Material
bamboo grass, aniline dye and rice flour paste adhesive
Made in
Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureEdz939

Multicoloured rice flour paste figure of the deity monkey, with right leg lifted, left hand over brow, with staff behind back. Staff is 17.5cm. Long, and is paste over bamboo stick. Figure is mounted on a bamboo stick which is embellished with two rice flour paste flowers.

Culture
Chinese
Material
rice flour paste adhesive, bamboo grass and aniline dye
Made in
Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Rain HatEd5.2898

Natural-coloured hat. The strands are bound, with the ends forming the top. The bottom edge has a thick band created by weaving strands back inward. There are round woven handles on the inside.

Culture
Japanese
Material
grass ?
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketryNb11.244 a-b

Small glass bottle (a) covered with a basketry sleeve and cap (b); tightly woven, wrapped twining with brown, orange and green bands of linear patterning around the sides. Lid is natural on the outside and red on the interior.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
swamp grass, cedar bark, glass and dye
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TrayCb89

Circular, coiled basketry tray with abstract design. Light brown, dark brown and reddish/brown alternating circular rim sections, followed by triangle and broken line motif in three colours. Another band of alternating and repeated light brown, dark browh, reddish brown. Center is solid reddish brown.

Culture
Hausa
Material
dun palm leaf ?, elephant grass and dye ?
Made in
Sudan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceAa150

Three strands made of short sections of light brown grass stalk are interspersed with tiny trade beads strung on twisted sinew.

Culture
Khoisan ?
Material
grass, sinew and glass
Made in
Okavango Swamps, Botswana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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