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RattleK2.453

Raft-like group of cane sections with fourteen split cane strings wrapped with split cane and resin. The back has a woven panel of five thick bands.

Culture
West African
Material
wood, stem ? and palm leaf ?
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Body MaskIe415

Tumbuan 'mask' or body costume. Conical shape made of a wooden frame and wrapped with a large piece of mulberry bark that is painted with a vertical striped pattern in dark brown, light brown and orange. Along the bottom edge is a long fringe of sennit(?) dyed red and black; the sides have two red tufts. Attached to the front is an oval shaped wooden mask covered in white clay. The face has a long forehead, protruding brow, nose and red tongue. The septum has boar tusks running through; eyes are inlaid with shell. Around the eyes and nose is black and white spotted detailing. Above the mask are black feathers, a large tuft of sennit ? dyed black and painted red and white. The top back has a fibre woven plate, an erect woven handle and a pink and blue fabric decoration with white feathers. The top sides have wooden handles painted black, red and white.

Culture
Asmat
Material
palm leaf, clay, paint, feather, wood, shell, cotton fibre, plant fibre, mulberry bark, boar tusk and dye
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Offering BasketIb455

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 12 cm. deep. with 'extending' beads above, and a pattern of x's, arched lines around reflective ? skin ? panels, metallic w's, upward pointing triangular crosses, crosses, red embroidered radiating v's, crosses, and double vertical lines with some panels at the centre. Upper beadwork is 3.5 cm. with a pattern of 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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Offering BasketIb453

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 10 cm. deep. with 'extending' beads above, and a pattern of x's, v lines, x's, x's, x's, x's with a blue band underneath, x's, and pairs of vertical lines at the centre. Upper beadwork is 2.3 cm. with a pattern of x's, and 'dangling' beads below.

Culture
Balinese
Material
palm leaf, glass and fibre
Made in
Bali, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Offering BasketIb449

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 8 cm. deep. with 'extending' beads above, and a pattern of x's, zig zags, x's, x's, x's, x's, and radiating double lines at the centre. Upper beadwork is 2 cm. with a pattern of x's and 'dangling' beads below.

Culture
Balinese
Material
palm leaf, glass and fibre
Made in
Bali, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Offering BasketIb446

Rounded, circular flaring, woven container that has a bowl shape. Exterior has intricate white beadwork on cloth backing in geometric horizontal, concentric bands. Lower beadwork is 6.1 cm. deep. with 'extending' beads above, and a pattern of x's, vertical lines, x's, x's, and pairs of vertical lines at the centre. Upper beadwork is 2.5 cm. with a pattern of vertical pairs of lines with a dark band underneath, x's, and 'dangling' beads below.

Culture
Balinese
Material
palm leaf, glass and fibre
Made in
Bali, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BroomIj12

Broom made from long thin plant fibres attached to a braided band of the same material and wrapped into a bundle.

Culture
Cook Islanders
Material
palm leaf
Made in
Cook Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Belt814/10

Girl's belt formed of six wool strands tied together at one end with pieces of fibre twisted in. There are sections of blue and yellow.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wool fibre, sisal fibre ?, palm leaf and dye
Made in
Olubus, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headdress812/19

Light-cream coloured palm leaf(?) headdress. There are seven sections of leaves that are split at the ends and that are folded back and attached to the band.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
palm leaf ?
Made in
Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Pot1295/1

Pot of a decorated gourd with woven neck of grass and plastic(?). A claw protrudes from top of plug, held in place by tightly wound grass. Decorations are in a band around gourd's centre and consist of spirals that meet to form triangular spaces that are filled with either fine incised lines or three petaled flowers.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
gourd fruit, palm leaf ?, pig tusk ? and plastic ?
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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