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Spear2948/144

Wooden spear. The spear is made from bamboo with a carved wooden point. The connection between the shaft and the carved, barbed wooden spear point is wrapped in a small stretch of thin interwoven plant fibres. The wooden point is carved near the tip with five large sets of barbs, four smaller, rounded barbs and a thin, long point.

Culture
Asmat
Material
bamboo grass and plant fibre
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Spear2948/143

Spear made with a bamboo shaft. The shaft is joined to the bundle of metal points that form the spearhead, bound by woven plant fibre. This bundle of organic fibre is connected to a woven section of synthetic fibre through a number of tight loops between the two bundles. The spearhead consists of five pointed metal pieces and five metal pieces with triangular, perforated tips. These different metal pieces are arranged roughly equidistant from each other to form a conical shape.

Culture
Asmat
Material
bamboo grass, plant fibre, synthetic fibre and iron metal
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Pipe2948/136 a-b

Wooden pipe. The larger piece (part a) is decorated on the middle third with two thin bands of painted, cross-hatched design on either side of a reddish middle panel featuring intertwined abstract designs. At the centre of these design are triangles containing hourglass shapes. The designs are outlined in dark brown pigment and filled in with many parallel horizontal lines. At one end of part (a) the wood is coloured darker than the rest of this piece and wrapped in a thick band of synthetic fibre. Part b is undecorated aside from a small band of stylized ‘v’ shapes. There are ash remains inside both parts. Both parts have tape wrapped around them, one at the end, the other at midsection.

Culture
Asmat
Material
bamboo grass, paint and tape adhesive
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Pipe2948/134 a-b

Wooden pipe. One piece (part a) has a band of decoration near the midsection, consisting of incised and pigment-filled abstract patterns of curved, straight, and intersecting lines. At the base of this band is another smaller band with roughly circular dot incisions. The end adjacent to the decoration has a distinct mottled texture and is darker in colour. The opposite end has been whittled down to the interior layer of wood and is darker in colour. The other part (b) has been slightly whittled down at either end and has two sections of bark preserved in bands around either end of the piece. Some ash remains inside both pieces.

Culture
Asmat
Material
bamboo grass and pigment ?
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Pipe2948/133

Wooden pipe. Large pipe consists of one open end and an opposing rounded end with a small circular opening. The outside surface is decorated with linear designs. The exterior is riddled with small holes while the interior retains some ash, particularly at the rounded end. There is a white band of paint(?) running along the midsection of the pipe.

Culture
Asmat
Material
paint and bamboo grass ?
Made in
Ambisu, Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Pipe2948/132 a-b

Wooden pipe. One piece (part a) has a smoothed surface, red-brown in colour, and is undecorated. The end portion is circular with a smaller, circular opening and carved letters. Part b is light yellow-brown in colour and is similarly unadorned. Both parts of the pipe retain some ash material inside.

Culture
Asmat
Material
bamboo grass
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headdress3051/4

Cedar headdress. Thick ring constructed of fine strands of tightly wrapped cedar, sewn in place by red woolen threads. The back portion of the ring is thinner, with a grey tone, while the sides and front are wider and more reddish-brown. At the front is a large, decorative, protruding half-ball of cedar, with the ends trimmed to create a sunburst effect around the ball. There is a similar, but smaller, ball on each side.

Culture
Gitxsan
Material
wool fibre and cedar bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa Cloth3032/2

Almost square tapa cloth with geometric patterns in dark and light brown on a medium brown base. Designs are organized into two repeating, vertical halves, each with 5 repeating horizontal rectangular patterns. Each of the ten rectangles are similar, with a thin strip with two horizontal bars at the left side, then 2 squares with cross designs inside, one with a black circle at the centre, followed by two thin rows of diagonal lines in light brown. There are also several thin strips of zigzag lines in light brown running through the other designs. Half of the squares with crosses have a light brown lined background, the other half have a light brown diamond pattern. A dark brown ,heavy cotton border is attached to both side edges; a wooden bar is attached across the back upper edge. Heavy black paper is attached to (but breaking off of) the lower back edge.

Culture
Samoan ?
Material
paper mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Samoa ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa Cloth3032/1

Rectangular tapa cloth with geometric patterns in dark and light brown on a medium brown base. Designs are organized into an 8 x 6 grid of squares, outlined in dark brown. Each of the squares contains a diagonal cross piece design, some as filled in lines and some as thin, stretched ovals (propellor-shaped). Two rows have black cross-hatching covering half of the background of every other square. Three sides have a zigzag patterned border. A wooden bar is attached across the back upper edge.

Culture
Samoan ?
Material
paper mulberry bark
Made in
Samoa ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tunic3028/1

Ceremonial bark cloth costume. The garment is a vest, slightly longer in front, completely open along the sides, with narrow shoulders and a deep v-neck at front. On the front a large toucan bird is attached at centre, wings spread to the sides, beak pointing downward. Linear designs have been lightly carved into the beak. To the bird’s sides two smaller beaks are sewn to the cloth, as are groupings of feathers dyed red, yellow and brown, several with seeds at their centre. Yellow and red feathers surround the v-neck. On the back of the garments is a smaller bird, black, with a serrated yellow and black beak and a strip of red and white feathers on the tail. Large, dyed feathers splay outward from the top of the body. Portions of bird beaks surround the creature. On front and back of vest, the bark cloth is heavily painted with zigzag, ‘x’ and other motifs in brown, yellow and red. Small, oval, black and red seeds line the edges and neck of the vest, as well as a decorative strip of feathers near the bottom where additional bark cloth has been sewn to the garment, front and back. Small dyed feathers hang from quills below this strip, while long feathers dangle from the bottom of the vest. These are dyed blue yellow and orange.

Culture
Interior Amazonia ?
Material
bark, toucan bird, toucan beak, feather, seed, paint, dye and fibre
Made in
Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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