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StaffC653

Staff with a simple tapering shaft painted black and having cane and feather tied on at one end. The feathers are mainly red and grey.

Culture
Western Melanesia
Material
feather, wood, stem ? and plant fibre
Made in
New Britain, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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StaffC654

Staff with simple tapering pointed shaft painted black. Decorated with cane and feathers which are tied at one end; feathers are mainly red, grey and black.

Culture
Western Melanesia
Material
wood, plant fibre, stem ? and feather
Made in
New Britain, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskC655

Carved mask attached to headpiece by fibres. Face is painted in geometric designs in white, red, and black. Shells for the eyes. Headpiece has real grey-brown hair at either side covered in white clay and an extended ridge running front to back along the middle, and is built on a frame of strips of red orange-brown wood and bark cloth. Elaborate decoration.

Culture
Western Melanesia
Material
bark, wood, human hair, clay, paint, shell and plant fibre
Made in
New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ClubC751

Cylindrical, brown wood handle that curves around at a forty degree angle. The end is curved into a y-shape and has a spur. The inside of the curve has a rectangular panel of white. The upper portion of the handle is covered with braided fibre in alternating brown and black rings. There is a knob at the end of the handle.

Culture
Fijian
Material
wood and plant fibre
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BowC756

A very long plain dark red-brown bow with a string.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
plant fibre and wood
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BowC761

A very long plain rather flat bow with one side painted black . There are yellow wrappings at each end of the twisted string.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
plant fibre and wood
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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WhiskC467

Each section of vegetable fibre braided part way then hanging loose and bound to wood cylindrical handle by string. Tapered handle.

Culture
Fijian
Material
wood, fibre and plant fibre
Made in
Lomaloma, Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TabuaC572

Whale tooth suspended on a cord of vegetable fibre.

Culture
Fijian
Material
plant fibre and whale tooth
Made in
Vanua Levu, Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RopeC584

Yellow-brown coloured braided tabua cord.

Culture
Fijian
Material
plant fibre
Made in
Lau, Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model HouseC893 a-b

Model house in two parts: the base (a) consists of a raised floor made from wooden slats on a frame with four posts, each with a groove in the top, and it is all lashed together with twined plant fibre; the roof (b) is a plain gable roof composed of a wooden frame lashed together with off-white string, covered on the outside with layers of palm leaves, and finished along the peak with palm leaves that have been folded over and are held with thin strips of wood woven through slits in the palm leaves.

Culture
Samoan
Material
plant fibre, palm leaf and wood
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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