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Tapa ClothC1255

The tapa cloth is natural in colour with designs painted in black and dark red. There is a narrow border along the edges decorated only with bunches of four black lines. Inside the borders are many square and rectangular panels repeated in a regular pattern. One panel is black horizontal lines with marks in the centre. The next panel is two black triangles, one upside down and one right-side up, joined at the point. The next panel is a natural coloured chain on a black background. Another panel is a natural coloured figure with eight legs on a red background. The last panel is five red circles bordered by red triangles. The cloth is painted on one side but the paint has bled through to the backside.

Culture
Fijian
Material
mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Nalebaleba, Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa Cloth2623/47

The cloth is natural coloured, rectangular and decorated with four panels. The repeated design in each of the four panels is a central line with a circle on both ends and four lines extending from the circle. At both ends, the circle and extending lines are outlined. There are two triangles, one on either side of the central line, their tops together and pointing into the line. In each corner are two half circles. Along the inside of the borders of each panel are short lines. All designs have small gray dots along the edges of the thicker reddish-brown lines. The details of each panel are slightly different: the shading of the repeated motif or the background shading or the number of border lines. The cloth is painted on one side.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
paper mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Sirorata, Oro, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa Cloth2623/46

The cloth is natural coloured and rectangular with linear designs outlined in black. The design is made up of thick, straight brownish-orange lines decorated on one side with black dots. After every two straight lines there is a motif made of two lines coming together several times to form oval spaces. The motif is decorated with black dots and irregular shapes fill the oval spaces. The cloth is painted on one side but has bled through to the other side.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
paper mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Sirorata, Oro, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa ClothC1280

The cloth is natural in colour with designs in dark and light brown. In the centre of the cloth there is a thick brown caterpillar-like figure with many rounded sections, increasing in size across the width of the cloth. There are many lines extending from the sections, much like legs. To one side of the figure, the designs are linear. Thick parallel brown lines have various 'v' patterns attached, some coloured in and some outlined. On the other side of the central figure, the designs are more circular. The parallel brown lines are fewer and have leaf-like patterns attached. In one area there are no lines, but many circles with leaves extending in all directions. The cloth is painted on one side but some paint has bled through to the backside.

Culture
Ni-Vanuatu
Material
paper mulberry bark, paint and pigment
Made in
Erromango, Tafea, Vanuatu
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Iwami Kagura MaskEd5.2489

Iwami kagura mask (Iwami kagura-men;石見神楽面), made of paper mâché, of a serpent-like face with a movable jaw and ears, a long snout, and two protruding pointed antler-like appendages at the top of the head. Strands of long black hair are attached via holes across the top of the brow. The mask is painted light green with a red mouth and tongue, red inner ears, gold teeth and eyes, red around the nostrils, black at the base of the antlers and yellow at the tips, and lines in black, grey and white are used to create the illusion of hair around the lips, on the ears, and on the eyebrows. Two pieces of white fabric are attached at the bottom of the mask and painted with scales in dark grey, yellow, orange and red.

Culture
Japanese
Material
paper, fibre, paint, paste adhesive and hair
Made in
Shimane, Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa Cloth2623/49

The cloth is natural coloured and rectangular, decorated with four panels and one side fringe. The repeated motif in each of the four bordered panels is made up of brownish-red lines outlined in black. The motif features long zigzag lines in different formations. Two lines put together form a chain with diamond-shaped openings. One line put along a border creates a row of triangles. One side of the cloth has been repeatedly cut, creating a thick cloth fringe. The cloth is painted on one side.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
paper mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Sirorata, Oro, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ChestEd5.2889 a-d

Chest (a) consisting of a square base with feet that has bevelled gold edges at the top; contains a taller drawer at the bottom (b) as well as a shallower drawer at the top (c). A mirror stand (d) with an arched top, curled finials, two curved arms that angle forward (to hold mirror Ed5.2891), and two circular metal inserts depicting birds fits into two square holes in the top of the base. A gold stylized floral and vine design covers the black lacquered chest and stand. The top and sides of the chest each have three leaf medallions with calligraphy in the centre. The drawers have metal ring pulls, each with a leaf design, and are black lacquer with gold trim on the top edges.

Culture
Japanese
Material
wood, lacquer, paint, metal and gold metal
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa ClothC1202 a

The tapa cloth is natural in colour with designs painted in reddish-brown and gray. The thick brown lines are painted in wavy and v-like patterns and cover the width of the cloth. All brown lines are outlined in gray and then surrounded with dotted lines. The lines are painted on only one side of the cloth but much of the brown lines have soaked through to the other side.

Culture
Orokaiva
Material
paper mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Oro, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeaddressA5281

Painted wooden headdress; probably representing a bear. The long snout has a large black nose and nostrils outlined in red. The mouth is closed but the thin black lips are parted to reveal many white teeth. The eye is a white oval with a round black centre. At the rear of the headdress, a red circle and wavy green line are carved out on either side.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
wood and paint
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearC294

The tip is coiled with yellow-brown plant fibre, below which, there are the following: four sets of four small barbs; three sets of four increasingly longer barbs; and seven sets of four small barbs. The point is decorated with a red and yellow grass sleeve with a horizontal zig zag pattern around a central red diamond shape pattern, a carved band that is emphasized with white and that consists of two figures (each of which has circular eyes and a double upward pointing nose), and a fibre tuft. Below, there is another red and yellow grass sleeve that has a similar pattern as the one above. Bright red and yellow plant fibre coiling are at either ends of the grass sleeve. The red-brown wood shaft is plain and square in cross section.

Culture
Western Melanesia
Material
fibre, bone, wood, grass, paint and pigment ?
Made in
Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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