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Arm Ornament2948/56

Two boar tusks tightly bound together at the root ends with rattan through small drill holes. A 22cm-long string of sago leaf fibre with two knots passes through a drill hole near one of the tips. This section has broken off the other tusk which is missing one complete side from base to tip.

Culture
Asmat
Material
boar tusk and plant fibre
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Arm Ornament2948/55

Two boar tusks tied together by twisted rattan, running through small holes drilled in the ends. The opposite ends of the tusks were also once connected by rattan, which has now come loose from one side.

Culture
Asmat
Material
boar tusk and plant fibre
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Arm Ornament2948/54

Two boar tusks with small holes drilled through both ends. The root ends are tied together, 3.5cm apart, with a strip of sago leaf through single holes. The tips are tied together with rattan. Both tips are broken.

Culture
Asmat
Material
boar tusk and plant fibre
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Arm Ornament2948/53

Two boar tusks are tightly bound with rattan through single holes drilled through the root ends; tips are held widely apart. They are dark in colour and show evidence of drill holes at ends.

Culture
Asmat
Material
boar tusk and plant fibre
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Arm Ornament2948/52

Two boar tusks drilled at both ends, tied together through single holes at the root end with bast string. Two separate bast strings are looped through the holes at the tip ends, each knotted several times.

Culture
Asmat
Material
boar tusk and plant fibre
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bag2948/24

A loosely woven bast string bag. The strap has been knotted several times in the middle, reducing its length.

Culture
Asmat
Material
plant fibre
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ceremonial Costume2948/17

Costume made of thick woven plant fibre. A square skirt is attached to a hood, featuring raised vertical stripes painted with ochre and lime. The hood has a woven and painted swirl on each side above three short horizontal stripes. A nose protrudes from the hood with large, rectangular gaps for the eyes and mouth. Round ears sit on both sides of the hood, and two loops are attached at back. At the base of the head arms are attached that would cover the top or outside of the wearer`s arms, with cuffs that have long strands of sago leaf sprouting from them. Sago strands also hang from below the skirt. At the base of the body is a string appendage representing a phallus.

Culture
Asmat
Material
plant fibre, sago fibre, ochre pigment and lime pigment
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure3055/15

Wooden ikenga figure. The figure has a conical base with a cylindrical torso. The torso/body is decorated with incised zigzag lines and raised sections of wood with grooves around the edges of the midsection. The figure’s neck is long and wrapped at the base with a thin, degraded strip of woven fabric which is knotted at the back of the neck. The figure’s head is rounded in the back but with a triangularly shaped face including a pointy, beaked nose and sharply pointed small chin and lips. The eyes are stylized slits on the edges of the face, and attached to the sides of the head are two large, curved horns. The horns are v-shaped and point backwards away from the face. There is a large crack in the figure extending from the neck to the base on the left side.

Culture
Igbo
Material
wood and plant fibre
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Medicine Box3038/2

Shaman’s medicine box made of two pieces of folded bark, one making up the outer back and sides, held together with stitched plant fibre at top and bottom. The box is a long rectangle with rounded edges, slightly wider at top. Three bands of light red woven root, moveable and of differing lengths, are wrapped around the box to hold it closed. Two short wrapped bands of root(?) are attached to flaps at both top and bottom and hold two long handles made of strips of plant fibre.

Culture
Mentawai
Material
bark, plant fibre and root ?
Made in
Siberut, West Sumatra, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Medicine Box3038/1

Shaman’s medicine box made of two pieces of folded bark, held together with a type of stitched plant fibre at the top and bottom. The box is a long rectangle with rounded edges, slightly wider at top. Two bands of woven root, one light in colour, the other dark, are wrapped around the box at the middle and top. Two short wrapped bands of root are attached to flaps at both top and bottom and hold a long handle made of a strip of plant fibre.

Culture
Mentawai
Material
bark and plant fibre
Made in
Siberut, West Sumatra, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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