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Divining Stick440/1 a-lllll

Set of diving sticks. Part a: Vertical container made from a section of bamboo painted at the top and bottom with bands of green and red. Parts b-lllll: Thin sticks of bamboo painted red at the top--the sticks stand vertically in the bamboo container.

Culture
Chinese
Material
bamboo grass and paint
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Snuff Bottle692/3 a-b

Clear glass bottle (part a) with rounded green coloured stopper with cork and stick attachment (part b). From the neck of the bottle, the shape of the piece slopes down at an angle and ends one-quarter of the way from the top. It then slopes inwards and tapers to a base with four squared-off feet. The bottle is painted with blue, pink and black paint. On one side, there is a small bird sitting on a cliff looking out at flowers and plants below. On the other side, there is a small bird sitting in a tree. There are Chinese characters written on the top edge of the piece to the side.

Culture
Chinese
Material
glass, paint, cork bark and bone ?
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Weaving Tool698/38

A wood reel like object with four rectangular bars; each pair is connected diagonally from its partner with two perpendicular oval-like wood pieces. There is a hollow cylindrical piece at the centre which allows the object to rotate and open.

Culture
Japanese
Material
wood, metal and bamboo grass
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fan1234/2

A light brown coloured fan woven out of plant fibres. The bottom of the fan curves around to a point at both sides and then curves up to a point at the top. Half of the fan is concave, and the other half of the fan is convex. The design is that of a darker black plant fibre having eight alternating rows emanating at a curve from the embedded handle point. The handle is wrapped around with an orange-brown braided plant fibre rope.

Culture
Eastern Melanesian ?
Material
plant fibre and bark ?
Made in
Pacific Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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People Representation1521/10

Coloured and patterned paper glued to a bamboo frame. A red paper ring serves as the base, onto which five standing human silhouettes are glued facing outwards at equal distances from one another.

Culture
Chinese
Material
paper, bamboo grass and paste adhesive
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hat688/1

Dark brown molded leather hat with wide brim. Two curved dark brown strips of bamboo are suspended underneath the hat.

Culture
Philippines
Material
deer skin, bamboo grass, fibre and dye ?
Made in
Philippines
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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House Screen BoardNb7.241 b

A long rectangular cedar plank with faded Northwest Coast designs imprinted in the surface of the wood; black and red designs are barely perceptible. Cedar bark stitching and/or the accompanying holes at top and bottom ends of the board. Large area of rotted wood in the plank's centre. Uniform chisel marks and longitudinal cracks cover the underside.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
cedar wood, paint and cedar bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Adze1251/7 a-c

Part a is the handle of an adze. It has an acute angle to the head where a blade would be hafted. The head is wrapped with dried grass, which would have aided the hafting process. Part b is an adze blade of stone. It has an edge at one end and then tapers slightly toward other end which is missing. Part c is the missing fragment of part b.

Culture
Western Polynesian ?
Material
stone, wood and grass ?
Made in
Pacific Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Musical Instrument1288/1 a-b

The bamboo instrument (part a) is a plucked idiophone known as mukkuri in Ainu. It is made of a flat long wooden stick which extends into a wider rectangular shape at one end. Within the first piece there are two slits which go along the stick in a prong-like shape; a red string loop is attached. The second piece (part b) is a paper document with orange designs and black and white writing characters with a picture of the object in the bottom middle.

Culture
Ainu
Material
bamboo grass ?, paper and fibre
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sword1060/42 a-b

Long metal sword (part a) with decorative leather casing (part b). End of sword handle is metal-tipped, has series of red coloured scalloped edges and ends with a green scalloped piece that holds the blade. Beyond the green piece is the sword sheath or casing. Body of casing is shaped by a series of six thin-edged knobs that are spaced with three narrow areas and are decorated with two large centralized shield-like knobs on either side of the sword. Each are decorated with interwoven geometric designs made of black, light-yellow and dark red grasses(?). Attached to the two large central knobs are two brown toggles with two strands of looped black cording. Hanging downwards from the central knobs are two long and wide overlapping leather flaps with spaghetti-thin pieces of leather. The long flaps are decorated with intricately cut and dyed geometric designs, as is the tapered, oval-shaped tip of the swords' sheath.

Culture
West African
Material
skin, metal, grass ? and dye ?
Made in
“Gambia” ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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