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Arrow PointA2.178

Small copper arrow point attached to a bone fore-shaft.

Culture
Inuit: Inuinnait
Material
copper metal and bone
Made in
Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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DrillA2.626

Rounded wooden shaft - two sides flattened with hole drilled through toward butt end. The point appears to be the corner of a file embedded in the end of the shaft and held with a nail and bound with hide stripping.

Culture
Inuit: Inuinnait
Material
skin, metal and wood
Made in
Coppermine, Nunavut, Canada and Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model HarpoonA2.274 m

Miniature harpoon with a straight wooden shaft, a short tusk handle protruding from the shaft, and a long, curving tusk head with a spade-shaped metal blade attached at one end.

Culture
Inuit
Material
steel metal, leather skin, wood and walrus tusk
Made in
Moose Factory, Ontario, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model HarpoonA2.274 k

Miniature harpoon with a wooden shaft, a short and a long metal spike protruding from either end, and a horn-shaped tusk inserted in centre.

Culture
Inuit
Material
leather skin, caribou sinew, walrus tusk ?, steel metal and wood
Made in
Moose Factory, Ontario, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model FloatA2.273 f-g

Wooden model of a seal skin float with a sinew line attached at one end that has a small metal point inserted into a white piece; bone peg 'plug' extends at other end (part f). Second, separate, wooden float is part g.

Culture
Inuit
Material
wood, skin, bone and metal
Made in
Moose Factory, Ontario, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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OrnamentK4.298

Ornament made from a band of metal bent into a c shape with the ends folded back on the outside with two points cut into the edge of each. The ornament is roughly two thirds copper and one third iron, meeting horizontally along the middle, and it is incised with a geometric design featuring cross-hatched scallop shapes emphasized with incised dots at the edges.

Culture
Southern African
Material
copper metal and iron metal
Made in
Angola
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowK4.296

Arrow with metal head that has slightly rounded sides and a pointed end with a short shaft that is bound to the long metal shaft with stem(?). Feathers have been bound to the shaft near the end with stem(?) whipping and the notched tip of the shaft also has stem(?) whipping wound around it.

Culture
Chokwe ?
Material
feather, metal, wood and stem ?
Made in
Angola
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thumb PianoK4.285

Thumb piano made from a rectangular block of wood with seven metal prongs raised up from the wood by a strip of wood and a bent metal strip, and secured with bent metal bar that is secured to the wood with metal wire. A ridged geometric design with a triangular motif has been carved into the top face, parts of which have been burnt. Three sets of three burnt lines decorate each of the two longest sides. There is one larger hole at the centre of the wood block, and there are two smaller holes in the wood block above the strip of wood. A bent metal bar with two metal cylinders on it is attached at the bottom edge.

Culture
Southern African
Material
metal and wood
Made in
Angola
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thumb PianoK4.284

Thumb piano constructed from a wooden plank with several metal prongs raised above the plank with a piece of wood and bent sheet metal that have been secured with a metal bar and wire. There is a ridged geometric design on the top face of the plank below the prongs, and a narrow geometric design carved into the plank above the prongs. There is one hole in the plank below the ends of the prongs, and one hole above where the prongs are attached.

Culture
Southern African
Material
wood, resin and metal
Made in
Angola
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model AxeK4.200

Triangular axe blade and cylindrical axe butt attached to long and tapered handle.

Culture
Barotse
Material
wood and metal
Made in
Zambia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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