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PaperEdz1179

Rectangular piece of red paper with printed gold ink Chinese text and images. The image at the centre is of a horse flanked by two people who are facing inward and one of which is holding out a round object in one hand.

Culture
Chinese
Material
paper, ink and dye
Made in
Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Offering PaperEdz1144

Paper offering consisting of a nearly square piece of red paper with black printed Chinese text and an image depicting five figures and five dragons with scrolls enclosed by a border of two dragons with a sun at the top centre.

Culture
Chinese
Material
paper, ink and dye
Made in
Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Offering PaperEdz1143

Paper offering consisting of a yellow piece of rectangular paper with red printed Chinese characters and images, the most prominent being of a horse flanked by two people who are turned inwards.

Culture
Chinese
Material
paper, ink and dye
Made in
Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Paper746/14

Rectangular sheet of cream-coloured paper with deckle edges and a fibrous texture; pencil inscription with characters in one corner.

Culture
Japanese
Material
paper
Made in
Kyoto, Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Paper746/4

Rectangular sheet of cream-coloured paper with deckle edges and a pencil inscription with characters in one corner.

Culture
Japanese
Material
paper
Made in
Kyoto, Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BookN1.553

Illustrated book with twenty-three paintings in polychrome. The painting is on the right page and a short poem on the left. The book opens up accordion-style, with the paintings and poems on one side; the other side is blank. The illustrations in sequence are: two people standing beside a shrine in a house with three people kneeling on a mat while two more are bowing on the grass; two people in a grain house being passed a container of grain being carried by two others while another person is carrying a container of grain on the back outside the gate with another carrying two buckets of grain on a pole across the shoulders; two people sifting grain with another person shoveling grain, and four others in the background; two people sifting grain with another person sweeping grain, another person carrying grain on the back, a mother with her child in a house, and a boy with chickens outside; one person pounding(?) grain outside, one person talking inside a building to another leaning over a gate-like wall, two people carrying a container of grain, and two people farming in the upper corner; a person tending to a child on wall, two people sifting grain, one person putting grain into a container that has a yoke-like contraption being operated by three people with two more people in the background; four people holding two-pronged sticks over a pile of grain while another pours a drink for them; four people stacking bundled grain; ten people helping to harvest grain; three people working in a back field while another is opening a water sluice in the fore field; four people working in a field while another looks on; four people working on a back field while two others are carrying food, and drinks for them with a child following behind; four people working in a fore field while two are opening a water sluice for them, and another is riding toward them on the back of an animal; four people working in a back field while another joins four others in a fore field; five people gathering grasses in a lower corner while another is stepping into the water behind them with three more having a basket and carrying trays of grasses in them; one man carrying two buckets on a pole over his shoulders while another man is trying to fix his; a woman fishing a pail out of the water, and two men with a boy holding a bird; two men sowing seeds in a watery field, and a boy holding a bucket on his shoulders with a dog; a man cultivating a field with an ox-like animal; a man cultivating a field with an ox-like animal while another is watching from the back of a similar animal; a man cultivating a field with an ox-like animal; a man cultivating a field with an ox-like animal while another man holding a stick is watching; and two people putting sacks into a watery field while a man is watching with a woman, and two children behind him. There are four pages of calligraphy at the back.

Culture
Chinese
Material
paper and paint
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model Totem PoleA6603

Totem pole model featuring a squatting man holding seal, top has salmon and eagle with outstretched wings. Painted in colours of green, red and black. Signed: Charlie James, Alert Bay. Has piece of printed paper attached to the underside of the base. Pole is secured to the base by two nails.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, paint, metal, paper and ink
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BookN1.554

Illustrated book with twenty-three paintings in polychrome. The painting is on the right page and a short poem on the left. The book opens up accordion-style, with the paintings and poems on one side; the other side is blank. The illustrations, in sequence, are: three people working on fabric at a table with another carrying toe rolls of fabric with two women watching; three women working on fabric in a house with two more outside holding three rolls of fabric; two women working at a loom with one woman bringing them tea while she is holding the hand of child being helped by an elderly woman; one woman spinning thread with two more outside holding some; four people praying at a shrine with a child while one woman is coming to bring tea; two people dyeing yarn, and two people hanging the yarn up outside; two women spinning thread inside with a child, and one woman outside with a child; one woman working on thread in a vat while another is holding the silk sacs in a basket, a child, and another child with a woman talking to two others over a wall; two adults, and two children sorting silk sacs; two men sorting silk sacs inside while two more are watching, and a man holding a hoe over the shoulder with a child; three buildings in which people have silk sacs in large containers; six people in, and around a building with silk sacs attached to two bundles of long grasses; an elderly man watching a younger man working on two green bushy bundles while two men are holding a large flat rectangular object with two more people in the background; two women in a building with large flat rectangular objects, a woman tending to a child in another building where there is also another woman holding a flat circular object as she is talking to a man fanning a fire outside; three women sorting silk sacs while two more are carrying baskets with a child; three women in a building on one side, and a man with a woman in a building on the other side; one woman working at a loom while two more are watching; three women working at a threading contraption with two children underneath; two groups of people sorting silk sacs; one woman lying down while two more are talking next to a five-tiered silk sac sorter; people in a field gathering leaves from trees; three women with two children sorting silk sacs; and three women around a container with another bringing tea.

Culture
Chinese
Material
paper and paint
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Card GameEdz1088

Card game consisting of 38 cards with black and red characters on a white background on the face, and black reverse sides, all wrapped with a piece of off-white paper with an image of two elephants and both English and Chinese text printed in red ink.

Culture
Chinese
Material
paper, ink and paste adhesive
Made in
Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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StrawK4.109

Long tubular drinking straw made of faded yellow and red-brown coiled vegetable fibre. One end has a woven strainer and the other has a mouth piece that curves to one side. Paper sticker on the side of the tube near the strainer.

Culture
Ganda
Material
wood, grass, plant fibre, paper and ink
Made in
Uganda
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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