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Dance Apron1243/7 c

A purple apron with long brown plastic ties. The pieces of leaf are dyed purple and knotted around a brown plastic string. The ends of the string extend beyond the skirt as ties.

Culture
Sri Lankan
Material
leaf ?, dye and plastic
Made in
Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeaddressK2.217

Woven palm fibre cap with a carved stylized antelope figure lashed to the top. Incised line patterns on face, body and horns; nails for eyes; elongated antlers.

Culture
Bamana
Material
metal, palm leaf, leather skin and wood
Made in
Mali
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mat566/2

The mat is rectangular and natural coloured with two fringes. The mat is woven and the weave is curved. There is a strip of red fabric sewn to one edge of the mat. Attached to the fabric are purple dyed chicken feathers. A long fringe extends past the fabric and feathers. On the opposite edge there is a shorter, squarer fringe.

Culture
Samoan
Material
pandanus leaf, dye, chicken feather and fibre
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Skirt1060/84

Skirt made of brown grasses with painted palm leaves. The grass is woven into a thick fibre band along the top of the skirt. Also woven into the band are palm leaves decoratively cut and painted red, orange and brown.

Culture
Samoan
Material
fibre, palm leaf, grass and paint
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dress MatC1025

The mat is square with rounded corners and geometric patterns. The centre is a natural coloured square surrounded by a square of brown diagonal lines. Next is a square of black squares alternating with the positive and negative images of two triangles, points touching. There is another square of brown diagonal lines. Then there is a large square of brown diamond shapes with the four corners solid brown. Finally the outside edge has a border of black designs resembling 'EIE'. Elaborate geometric designs of black and red on natural ground. Rounded corners. Tight weave.

Culture
Marshallese
Material
pandanus leaf, hibiscus leaf ?, dye ? and plant fibre
Made in
Marshall Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Skirt814/4

Skirt composed of shredded banana leaf with a strip of shorter fringe at the top front and a longer fringe behind, both knotted to the brown bark (?) waistband. Vertical bands of dyed leaf in purple, orange, yellow and green.

Culture
Trobriand
Material
banana leaf and dye
Made in
Losuia, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Garment1448/30

Garment made from dyed bark fibre(?) woven in a warp and weft pattern in a rectangular shape with fringes at the ends. The garment has a plaid pattern in purple, green, blue and yellow.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
pandanus leaf fibre and dye
Made in
Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketB99

The basket is a cylinder shape with four branches lashed to the sides and another branch forming the base. There are several bands of black, red and the natural brown fibre near the rim and a black, red and natural diamond pattern in the middle of the basket. There is two rows of brown stitching as well as parallel vertical stitching on the rim. Bark strips are tied to two of the side branches and to the base, creating straps.

Culture
Saduans
Material
rattan, bark, root and palm leaf
Made in
Sarawak, Malaysia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BagC1229 c

Bag woven from off-white and grey-brown palm leaf and red-brown bark to form geometric designs. Several fringes along top edge with two woven loop handles.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
bark and palm leaf
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Offering BasketIb452

Rounded, circular flaring, fibre woven container that has a bowl shape. Exterior has intricate white beadwork on cloth backing in geometric horizontal, concentric bands. Lower beadwork is 9.5 cm. deep. with 'extending' beads above, and a pattern of x's, arched lines around skin ? panels, alternating upward pointing triangular leaves and geometric beadwork shapes, alternating red sequins with metallic x coils as well as white cross beadwork, zig zag, x's, zig zag with metallic coiling, and alternating vertical lines and metallic coils at the centre. Upper beadwork is 3.5 cm. with a pattern of reflective ? skin ? panels outlined by white beads, x's, and 'dangling' beads below.

Culture
Balinese
Material
palm leaf, glass, fibre, skin ? and metal ?
Made in
Bali, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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