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Thorn CarvingAf405

Figure representing a female sitting on a cylindrical stool, holding a small cup and a naked baby. She is wearing a knee-length dress. She has a bowl between her feet. The figures are dark brown; the dress, stool, cup, and bowl are light brown. The base appears to be wood.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
rice adhesive, paper, egun thorn, atum thorn and fibre
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thorn CarvingAf373

Two figures representing people cutting a tree. One male figure is wearing a sleeveless shirt and knee-length trousers. The other male figure is wearing a short-sleeved knee-length garment. Both are wearing soft pointed hats and holding machetes in their right hands to cut the tree in between them. They are standing on a base of scattered shavings. Heads, limbs, tree, and shavings are dark brown. Garments are light yellow-brown. Hats are light red-brown. Machetes and the base are light brown wood.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
rice adhesive, fibre, paper, wood, egun thorn and atum thorn
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Daruma DollEd5.1489

White and gold daruma doll. Face in light pink with black accents. Blank eyes.

Culture
Japanese
Material
paper, paint and paste adhesive
Made in
Takasaki City, Gumma, Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Daruma DollEd5.1488

Red and gold daruma doll. Face in light pink with black accents. Blank eyes.

Culture
Japanese
Material
paper, paint and paste adhesive
Made in
Takasaki City, Gumma, Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeaddressIe438

Headdress composed of a piece of tapa cloth with rounded corners and decorated with bands of zigzag in red ochre. Woven and wound string with a linear pattern in light grey Job's Tears seeds and segments of black bamboo. The exposed string is rubbed with red, black and yellow pigment (?).

Culture
New Guinea
Material
bamboo grass, paper mulberry bark, fibre, seed and ochre pigment
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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LoinclothIe437

A bark cloth backed beaded panel. The beads are grey and polished and woven with plant fibre string in rows. There is a cross-pattern of black electrical wire pieces. The edges are dyed red, and the top is alternately dyed red, then has grey beads and yellow dye in vertical rows.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
plane wood, dye, paper mulberry bark, root and bamboo grass
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BookEd5.2871

Book of paper napkins with a blue cover and dark blue printing in English "Paper napkin for export" and a small blue elephant on triangular crest labeled "trade mark". There is a decorative dark blue border around the edges. The printing is on the back cover; the front cover is plain. Inside are three different sizes of napkins, usually bordered in flowers. Some are transparent with a self-pattern of spider webs. Two metal staples secure the book.

Culture
Japanese
Material
paper, metal and ink
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NapkinEd5.2801

Set of white paper napkins folded in half and bound in a paper wrapper; wrapper features a brown and green landscape design with black calligraphy.

Culture
Japanese
Material
paper, ink and adhesive
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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UmbrellaEd5.2863

Paper umbrella. Bamboo ribs are unfinished on interior; exterior ribs are black with brown tips; spiral design in red and yellow on oiled paper; gold paper band on interior joints; silver paper band at inner edge. Three holes in paper.

Culture
Japanese
Material
wood, paper, oil, lacquer ?, fibre, paint and plastic ?
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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UmbrellaEd5.2862

Paper umbrella. Bamboo ribs; white stenciled floral design over faded purple oiled paper; black painted band holds ribs to shaft; metal ferrule has green silk cord tied through it; round black knob at end of shaft has metal band at neck.

Culture
Japanese
Material
paper, oil, bamboo grass, lacquer, metal, silk fibre, paint and fibre
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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