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MaskA2.574

Human face with protruding hooked nose, deep eye-sockets, and round protruding eyes with hollow irises. Mouth is in shape of the number eight. Colours used are predominantly black. Cedar bark hair.

Culture
Haisla ?
Material
wood, cedar bark, fibre and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Speaker's StaffA6029

Speaker's staff consisting of a cylindrical wooden staff with a tapering, cylindrical shaped piece of metal protruding from the bottom. Along the staff are seven copper-shaped pieces of wood nailed to surface, painted in brown, red and white with lines and dots. All of the images are the same. Two of the coppers have been purposely split on the top while one is complete broken in two.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, steel metal and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model Totem PoleA5336

Painted model totem pole with several figures on a base. From bottom to top: whale, man with fish, wolf with seal, and thunderbird. Artist's name on back near base. Figures are secured to rounded base with nails.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, paint and metal
Made in
Fort Rupert, British Columbia, Canada and Tsaxis, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model Totem PoleA5334

A model totem pole depicting a man with a headdress and a wolf with a whale (from bottom to top). The wolf is painted with black eyes, a red nose, and dark green decoration around the sides of its head, and its body is painted red. The whale is painted black with dark green accents on its body and red dots along its lip line. The whale's head is in the wolf's mouth while its tail is in between the wolf's legs. The man has black eyes, black brows, and a black curled and 'spiked' moustache. His headdress has six flat upward pointing angular protrusions painted dark green, and red. He is painted with a dark green upper garment and a red lower garment.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood and paint
Made in
Fort Rupert, British Columbia, Canada and Tsaxis, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model Totem PoleA5333

Model totem pole. From the top down, the pole has the following figures: Thunderbird, a bear holding a whale, a man with a bird. Overall colours are blue, red, and black. Faint faint inscription on back. Figures sit on a round base and are secured by nails.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
paint, wood and metal
Made in
Fort Rupert, British Columbia, Canada and Tsaxis, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model Totem PoleA5331

Model totem pole with a thunderbird on top of a human holding a fish(?). Overall colours are black, brown-red, and green. Figures are secured to a rounded base with nails. Signed on the back.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, paint and metal
Made in
Fort Rupert, British Columbia, Canada and Tsaxis, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureA5328

Carved bird standing on a small base. The black eyes are surrounded by a mint green area with black brows above, and a red lined beak. The upswept wings each have six feather sections painted mint green, and red outlined with black. The chest has a face that has its black eyes surrounded by a blue area. The base is painted with a dark blue top, and a mint green geometric triangular pattern all around the bottom.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Storage BoxA5307

Wooden chest with a metal hinged lid. The lid and the base are painted black while the sides are white with slightly carved design painted black, red and green in Northwest Coast stylized forms. The front has a front facing, distributive design depicting an aquatic animal. A smaller sea bear (possibly) on both ends. Back plain black.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
metal, paint and cedar wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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CradleA3638

Side board of a cradle: white cloth painted in red and black with the split image of raven, nailed to a wooden board.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, cotton fibre, paint and metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA6173

Carved wooden, crooked beak mask. The beak has large red tear shaped nostrils with three orange u-forms with a band of black and white split u forms around the top. Running from the brow is a large central black frill that protrudes outward and curves downwards to the centre of the beak; decorated with black and white u-forms. The mouth is red, flat and protruding. The underside of the beak is black with a natural split u-form. The bottom parts of the beak are hinged with rectangular pieces of leather. The eyes are black, outlined in white and orange on a white ovoid shaped ground; brow is black. There are three orange u-forms behind the eyes and the corner of the beak. The inside of the mask is hollow with the exception of pieces of fibre twine that articulates the beak. Attached to the top is a wooden crest with red split u-forms on a white ground. The inner top has small bundles of small stripes of cedar bark; on the back are long strips of bark. Hanging from the bottom edge are pieces of twine that hold remnants of cedar strips that have white feathers tied on. The mask is painted black, white, orange and red with Northwest Coast stylized forms.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
fibre, feather, wood, cedar bark, paint, leather skin and metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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