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BasketD1.384

Basket with round front and flat back constructed in simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches) with a watch-spring base construction and a lid at the top. The basket is decorated with partial imbrication in two rows of staggered diamond shapes in red/off-white bulrush/red alternating with black/off-white bulrush/black. The lid has a continuation of the top row of diamond pattern and small triangles in black and red and is attached with rawhide hinges.

Culture
Interior Salish
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, cat-tail grass ?, rawhide skin and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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CombC1415

Comb with a handle which tapers to a straight edge. The main design along the handle is woven with red and natural-coloured weave in between radial bands of dark brown wood along the lower portion and with natural-coloured and dark brown weave along the upper portion. Forty long teeth fan outward radially. The teeth are secured by a natural-coloured weave between each tooth.

Culture
Kwaio
Material
wood, fibre, tree fern, morinda bark and morinda root
Made in
Malaita, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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CombC1416

Twenty three teeth are woven tightly together with fibre at one end to join the handle in an hour-glass-like shape. Handle is decorated with geometric designs of yellow and dark fibres. The upper portion of the handle simply consists of the teeth extensions. The lower portion of the handle has a design that consists of a diamond pattern.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
fibre, grass and wood
Made in
Malaita, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa ClothC1501

Rectangular tapa cloth with geometric designs in brown on natural coloured ground. The designs have star, crescent and line motifs scattered overall. There are bands along two edges.

Culture
Samoan
Material
paper mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa ClothC1502

Tapa cloth in an irregular shape (a rectangle with a large circle cut out of the centre) painted with stylized floral and geometric designs in brown and black covering almost entire surface.

Culture
Samoan
Material
paint and paper mulberry bark
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa ClothC1503

The cloth is square and natural in colour with a triangle fringe. There is a double diagonal line extending from each corner and ending in a large brown diamond in the centre of the cloth. The triangle fringe covers all four sides.

Culture
Samoan
Material
paper mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa ClothC1504

The cloth is square and natural in colour with a triangle fringe. There is a double diagonal line extending from each corner and ending in a small circle surrounded by four diamonds in the centre of the cloth. The triangle fringe covers all four sides and the triangles from three of the sides are painted brown.

Culture
Samoan
Material
paint and paper mulberry bark
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Poi BallC1507 a-b

Two pairs of poi balls. The first pair (part a) is decorated with orange and red-purple vertical stripes on a natural light yellow-brown background with a tassel of like colours in between the attached string. The second pair (part b) is decorated with pink and green-blue vertical stripes on a natural light yellow-brown background with a tassel of like colours in between the attached string.

Culture
Maori
Material
new zealand flax fibre and raupo grass
Made in
New Zealand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ClubC1048

The head is a black stone disc between woven bands of plant fibre (?) or bark (?), and black, brown, dark red, and green feathers. The handle is plain and tapered.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
plant fibre ?, feather, stone, wood and bark ?
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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CombC1512

Five long teeth. Handle has two holes and is decorated with carved painted geometric designs in red and natural colour of a curvy zig zag.

Culture
Eastern Melanesian ?
Material
bamboo grass
Made in
Pacific Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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