• Results (8,764)
  • Search

Item Search

The item search helps you look through the thousands of items on the RRN and find exactly what you’re after. We’ve split the search into two parts, Results, and Search Filters. You’re in the results section right now. You can still perform “Quick searches” from the menu bar, but if you’re new to the RRN, click the Search tab above and use the exploratory search.

View Tutorial

Log In to see more items.

Knife984/13 a

A long curved-tipped metal knife with three metal rings on top and two metal rings on the bottom, equally spaced, dangling a flat metal heart-shaped piece. There is another metal ring on the bottom near the tip end. The rounded wood handle is painted red with a circular knob at the end from which dangles a metal ring. There are three flat metal circles of gradually diminishing sizes with rimmed with dots that are in between the handle and the blade.

Culture
Korean
Material
wood, metal and paint
Made in
Korea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Shadow Puppet1180/2

Shadow puppet of a dragon. Black head is decorated with yellow dots and black triangular designs. Mouth and tongue are red. Long curved body is decorated with black and yellow scales.Tail is fanned out and decorated with yellow line designs at tips and black line designs at its base. Four legs with sharp claws are along the length of the body. Two long sticks with metal rods are attached to the tail and the head of the puppet.

Culture
Chinese
Material
horse skin, wood, metal and paint
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Doll529/38 a-b

The first paper doll (part a) has a white cloth face with black-painted eyes, eyebrows, and nose and a red-painted mouth. Her hair is folded out of black crepe paper into a bun and she has a pink ribbon pinned to her hair in a flower-like style with a yellow pin at the centre. Her cream-colour based Kimono-like robe has an orange spiral design with green dots and a red underlining and it is folded outward at diagonal angles from the waist. She has an orange belt with a gold-coloured string-like paper tied around it. The second paper doll (part b) has a white face with no facial features and black crepe paper hair tied in a bun with a red paper comb on top. Her kimono-like robe is coloured blue, pink, yellow, red, purple and white with an orange underlining and it is folded outward at diagonal angles from the waist. She has a purple, pink, red, and blue belt.

Culture
Japanese
Material
paint, paper, paste adhesive and fibre ?
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
DishEdz1455

Round shallow dish with short raised foot ring. Decoration in dark grey-green on light grey-brown ground. Interior decoration is a mottled band on sides, an unglazed band at bottom of sides, and a central mottled star; exterior is undecorated..

Culture
Chinese
Material
clay, paint and glaze
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Mask1373/20

Yali mask with two horn-like projections that point upward and curve convexly. The horn-like pieces are linked together in the middle by a square decorated with a white X-like design, on a black background. The horn-like pieces are decorated with red-brown, white-grey, and black geometric designs of lines, triangles, and squares. The helmet part is decorated with red-brown, white-grey, and black triangles on the upper half and horizontal lines on the bottom half which extend to two squares which protrude outward at the sides of both ends. The eyes are carved out as vertical rectangles. The nose, mouth with teeth, and beard are geometric rectanglur features. Fibre rope is threaded through the holes made along the sides of the mask.

Culture
Mossi
Material
wood, paint and fibre
Made in
Burkina Faso
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Buffalo Headdress1491/5

Buffalo, or bush cow, headdress (or mask). The animal has a long narrow face, with tapered horns on its head that curve inward at the ends. The lower part of thehorns is decorated with a white cross-hatching design. The head of the animal has eyes carved in relief and outlined in white paint, small oval-shaped protruding ears, wide oval-shaped nostrils painted white in the centre, and a slightly open mouth with large white painted teeth.

Culture
Bamileke ?
Material
wood and paint
Made in
Cameroon
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Printing Block1431/5

Woodblock, or print block. Rectangular-shaped brown and black wood block with three rows of characters carved in relief and raised on surface. The top and bottom lines are in the Lantsa Sanskrit script and the middle line bears the mantra in Tibetan script, which may be transliterated as **||Om mani padme hum|. Thinly carved border around entire frame.

Culture
Himalayas
Material
wood and paint ?
Made in
Nepal and Tibet
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Figure1262/303

Wooden, red and white robed male figure with brown hair and beard. Figure's arms are missing. Figure mounted on red, square wooden base.

Culture
Philippines
Material
wood and paint ?
Made in
Philippines
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
FigureIa344

Standing figure of a woman with shoulder length hair, hands together as in prayer, wearing a long brown and white (?) dress. Dress is flared, giving the figure a triangular overall shape. Figure stands on a roughly ovoid base.

Culture
Philippines
Material
wood and paint ?
Made in
Philippines
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Mask985/6

A green-faced mask with brown eyes outlined with red, red nostrils, and a red mouth with six teeth covered with shells. The black moustache is curvy as are the eyebrows. The forehead is decorated with a gold-like tear-drop-shaped design with a green stone in the middle. To each sides of the hair, there is another gold-like tear-drop-shaped design with a red-painted middle. There is a headpiece on the black hair which is gold-like and has a green stone in the middle with two red-painted areas at either sides. Attached to the sides of the mask is a rubber band.

Culture
Western Indonesian
Material
wood, paint, rubber and shell
Made in
Bali, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record