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DrillA2.394

Upper portion of a broken drill; piece of white bone handle wrapped with sinew; long metal point attached at end.

Culture
Inuit: Inuinnait
Material
caribou sinew, iron metal and bone
Made in
Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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AdzeK4.45 a-b

Long wooden handle (part a) with pointed angled piece at top wrapped with strips of wood. Hole for flared cutting edge (part b). Cutting edge is a tubular hollow shank that widens at the end and tapers towards the blade.

Culture
Central African ?
Material
iron metal and wood
Made in
Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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QuiverK4.245 a-aa

Dark brown leather quiver (part a) and twenty-six arrows (parts b-aa). Twenty-two of the arrows (parts b-w) consist of iron arrowheads of various shapes and sizes bound to bamboo shafts with feather fletchings at the end. Parts x-aa also have bamboo shafts ending with feather fletchings, but narrow to a sharp point at the tip and do not have arrowheads.

Culture
East African
Material
feather, iron metal, bamboo grass and leather skin
Made in
Tanzania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearK4.239 a-b

Spear head and shaft (part a) and handle (part b). Spear head is flat and triangular with a long shaft that splits into three ridged strands that have been braided, then the strands reconnect to form the remainder of the shaft which ends in a larger cylindrical segment that fits over the top of the handle. The handle is cylindrical and tapers towards the end.

Culture
West African
Material
iron metal and wood
Made in
Congo
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearK4.236

Dark brown wooden spear with a silver-coloured, leaf-shaped point of native processed iron. Plain shaft with wrapped iron ferrule.

Culture
Southern African
Material
iron metal and wood
Made in
Mwinilunga, Zambia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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OrnamentK4.142

Sections of coiled copper and iron wire. Very little relief linear design on one side only. Shaped like a pointed v-shaped open mouth.

Culture
Maasai
Material
iron metal and copper metal
Made in
East Africa, Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleK4.141

A metal rattle with seven cone-shaped pieces at one end, and a thin rectangular handle. There are six cones surrounding a larger cone, each with a clapper, radiating out in a partial circle from the end of the handle.

Culture
Central African ?
Material
iron metal
Made in
Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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AwlK4.140

Awl with needle-like pointed tip and tapered wooden handle.

Culture
Southern African
Material
iron metal and wood
Made in
Zambia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowA7919

Plain unfeathered shaft with the blunt bulbous head made from a hinge pin. Metal pin has a rounded head with a ring around its base and is inset into the wood shaft which has light and dark rings of colour around its base.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
iron metal, sinew and wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketB569 a-b

Basket base (a) with lid (b). Double layer of weaving: the inside is herring-bone weave and the outside is a regular warp and weft weave. Dyed pink and black wefts around centre of base and over lid. Forged iron handles on lid and base.

Culture
Turi
Material
bamboo grass, dye, stem ? and iron metal
Made in
Bihar, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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