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Necklace2623/44

Coconut shell scraper attached to a necklace of Job's tears strung on green plastic fibre. Scraper has been sharpened to a concave rounded edge and sides have been notched for decoration. A small piece of bark fibre rope loops the scraper to the necklace, hiding the plastic fibre. Pahaion necklace.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
coconut nutshell, plastic fibre, bark fibre and job's tear seed
Made in
Sirorata, Oro, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shirt2615/2

Machine-sewn man's dress shirt in lavender with a buttoned front down to the abdomen. The shirt also has buttons at the cuffs and a left breast pocket.

Culture
Gujarati
Material
nylon fibre ?, dye and plastic
Made in
Dhamlej, Gujarat, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Necklace2623/27

Boar tusk and bush banana tips necklace. The tusks are wrapped to the strand of bush banana tips with two types of fibre. The banana tips are strung on a clear plastic fibre.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
nutshell, boar tusk, plastic fibre and fibre
Made in
Sirorata, Oro, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Necklace2623/25

Fragments of plastic red electrical wire casing, strung on bark fibre. Necklace has a single white shell and a wire casing 'tassle' in red and black.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
plastic, bark fibre and shell
Made in
Sirorata, Oro, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Necklace2623/24

Large polished shell and bush banana tips strung on green plastic string. Shell has two additional holdes at each end, suggested that it had previously been used for a similar purpose.

Culture
Torres Strait Islander
Material
shell, nutshell ? and plastic fibre
Made in
“Torres Strait Islands: Thursday Island” ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Necklace2623/23

Necklace made from bush banana tips and Job's tears in alternating sections and strung on clear plastic fibre.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
job's tear seed, plant and plastic fibre
Made in
Sirorata, Oro, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Necklace2596/4

Finely polished cow bone necklace strung on plastic filament (fishing line?). Small cylinder-shaped bone beads alternate with elongated rectangular bone pieces which curve to a point (like skis); ends of necklace have areas of just small beads. Necklace has metal hook clasp at ends.

Culture
Samoan
Material
cow bone, metal and plastic
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Necklace2596/3

Closed seed necklace strung on plastic filament. Small, round, red seeds interspersed with large, thick-shelled, flat brown seeds. There four red beads between each set of two brown seeds.

Culture
Samoan
Material
seed and plastic
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Waxemedlagin xusbandayu' (Even Though I am the Last, I Still Count)Nb3.1494 a-b

Two mixed-media, photo-based installation panels. On panel 'a', the outer borders depict four wolves, while the inner photographic image is of the artist's aunts and uncles as children, and the larger image is of old growth forest in Kingcome Inlet. Panel 'b' depicts four ravens on the outer borders, while the inner photographic image is of the artist's mother and her youngest sister, inside the larger image of the water and islands around Gilford Island.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, paper, ink, plastic, paint and metal
Made in
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Button Blanket2525/1

Button blanket in green wool with two pink fabric t-shapes outlined in buttons, flanking a copper with a smiling face made of buttons at the centre of the blanket. Blanket has.a pink cotton border along the sides and the top and buttons sewn around the border with coppers and triangular shapes. There is a white rectangular piece of pink and green paisley and floral print fabric at the top centre of the border.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wool fibre, cotton fibre, plastic and shell
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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