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Figure867/38 a-j

The figure has a pink face and dark pink cheeks wearing an elaborate feather headdress with light netted fabric painted pink, black, white, and turquoise on four sticks with pink tips. Pink robe with rainbow coloured rim and belt with flap that has a face with a red nose. Turquoise pants and black and white shoes. Right hand holds a yellow stick with a white tip under which is a pink tip perpendicular to it. Other pieces include the left arm (part b), a piece of the flap with the face (part c), pieces of the dress (parts d-f), pieces of ornament (parts g,h), a white circular stand (part i), and a stick (part j).

Culture
Chinese
Material
paste adhesive ?, dye and feather
Made in
Macau
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mobile Figure1610/13 a-e

The first piece (part a) is the head of a female painted with a green face and a large oval headdress surrounding her entire face. The headdress has a cylindrical stepped middle part, and the whole thing is red decorated with gold dots and a yellow rim. Her face is outlined with white and she has long black fibre hair. She has two knobs protruding from her face. The second piece (part b) is the upper body which has the arms bent at the elbows with the right perpendicularly forward holding a golden object and the left hand being held over the chest. The neck is long and tapers up to a point with a metal loop. The upper body garment is red decorated with green, blue, and gold. The third piece (part c) is the three red and beige multiple stringed strands with red and white tassels which are draped around the neck. The fourth piece (part d) is a skirt which tapers to a white point at the top with a metal loop. The waist has a dark blue belt decorated with circular gold flowers and a horizontal gold line around the top and the bottom of the belt. Oval beads are painted in three rows around the hips with a pink rope underneath. The skirt is white with visible light blue folds in the fabric and have two sets of horizontal rows that have pink in the middle and green around them which transition to yellow at the back. There is a long thin red front panel decorated with gold dots and sideways crescents outlined with two rows of gold dots followed by a pink, green, yellow, and white garland. Two long thin orange side panels are decorated with horizontal rows of green pink, blue, yellow and black. The fifth piece (part e) is the legs which are slightly fused together with dark blue anklets decorated with two horizontal of gold dots around the middle. The beige-pink feet are standing on a rounded circular base painted grey and black. There is a metal loop at the top of the legs.

Culture
Indian
Material
paper, cotton fibre, cement ?, dye, clay ?, paint, metal and paste adhesive
Made in
India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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CandleEdz1175 a-b

Two vertical sticks encased in red wax at the top. Each stick has a shorter stick attached at its base with paper at a forty-five degree angle. On both sticks the orange wax also has three coloured marks on it--yellow, white and green--and a large white wick emerging from the top.

Culture
Chinese
Material
wax, bamboo grass, paper and paste adhesive
Made in
Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Apothecary Bowl1569/4

Round bowl with indented foot and flared rim. Parchment paper over top is held on with string around base of flare. Interior has dark brown wax ? at bottom.

Culture
Dutch ?
Material
clay, glaze, parchment paper, paste adhesive and fibre
Made in
Netherlands ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Pagoda PropEdz1622

Four-tiered hexagonal representation of a tower that narrows towards the top. Roof areas hang over the edges of each tier, and are painted red with black shingle lines. The tower itself is light blue with painted white brick lines. There are small black coloured arched windows on each side. The paper structure is held together by a long bamboo pole that runs the length of the tower. It is secured to the structure by a split cross-bar at the opening near the bottom.

Culture
Chinese
Material
paper, bamboo grass, metal, fibre, paste adhesive ? and paint
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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People Representation1521/10

Coloured and patterned paper glued to a bamboo frame. A red paper ring serves as the base, onto which five standing human silhouettes are glued facing outwards at equal distances from one another.

Culture
Chinese
Material
paper, bamboo grass and paste adhesive
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bird Representation1521/35

Black paper object glued to a red paper base. The black figure rises in a dome-like fashion from the red paper, with two rounded tab-like appendages and a tail-like protrusion glued flat to the red base paper. A black paper fringe emerges from the figure's neck.

Culture
Chinese
Material
paper and paste adhesive
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bowl658/1

A light white-brown papier-mache bowl painted with pink, yellow, and blue animals, floral designs, and geometric designs.

Culture
North India
Material
paper, lacquer ?, paint and paste adhesive
Made in
Baas, Rajasthan, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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IncenseEdz1113

Long package of incense sticks. Outer package has long red label with Chinese characters printed in silver. The top of the label has a multi coloured image of a woman holding a basket of flowers. Inside the clear plastic packaging, there are long sticks of orange coloured incense attached to red coloured sticks.

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