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Figure3040/25

Carving of a fox with its paw caught in a leg hold trap. The fox and trap are carved from one piece of tusk. The trap is attached to a block (carved of tusk, representing a stone or ice weight) by a sinew line and held in place with a black peg. Just above is a red circular inset on the block (which may represent a piece of meat in the trap).

Culture
Inuit
Material
sinew, baleen ?, plastic ? and walrus tusk
Made in
Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model Knife3040/19

Carving in tusk of a penknife. Knife opens partially. The pieces that hold the penknife together are secured with three copper rivets. There is a decoration of four red dots in a diamond shape on the knife handle.

Culture
Inuit
Material
copper metal, plastic ? and walrus tusk
Made in
Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure3040/14

Carving of a bird with an elongated beak sitting on water. The water is a roughly triangular-shaped base. The bird's eyes are inlaid in red.

Culture
Inuit
Material
walrus tusk and plastic ?
Made in
Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hand Puppet3065/22

Cloth and wood puppet of a male figure. Head is wood, with white face and painted eyes, brows, mouth and hair. Long mustache and beard of plastic fibres emerge. Figure wears a tunic of patchwork fabrics in blue, red, green and pink, with a stripe of shiny red around neck to waist. Under this are padded legs attached to black and white boots that show under the tunic. Arms are held outstretched, with wooden hands attached. Thumb is stationary, while fingers are able to bend and flex as a group. Puppet can be controlled by inserting hand up the back of tunic to a hole in head and spaces along arms.

Culture
Chinese
Material
cotton fibre, wood, synthetic fibre, plastic and paint
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Penis Sheath2948/114

Penis sheath. A conical bottle gourd has been broken at the open end and folded inward to create an opening that fits inside a thick, woven loop of rattan. Two white strings have been woven into and around the band, and a synthetic line with several knots is attached at one end. A whitish paper-like fibre has been stuffed inside.

Culture
Asmat
Material
gourd fruit, plant fibre and plastic
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Penis Sheath2948/113

Penis sheath. A curving bottle gourd with a woven rattan band around the open end. A synthetic line is tied to the rattan band at one end, and appears to have been originally attached to the sheath’s tip. The gourd is cracked at the open end with one edge overlapping the other. This appears to be part of the design to allow gourd to fit inside woven band. There are scorch marks at the tip and on one side.

Culture
Asmat
Material
gourd fruit, plant fibre and plastic
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Belt2948/107

Woven belt has ten rows of light and dark sago leaf strips that have been woven over the top of ruddy brown sago fibres, forming diagonal lines. Two criss-crossing braids of these three colours are attached above this, forming diamond shapes. One end is a thick braided loop, the other has three ties: a thicker, longer one in the middle that culminates in a knot and fraying strands (with two rubber bands around it); and two thinner, shorter braids that end in loops.

Culture
Asmat
Material
sago fibre and synthetic rubber
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Button Blanket3089/1

Felted wool button blanket with large central design. Edges are red, scalloped on the inside border, with a narrow strip of white, also scalloped, and a black interior panel. On this panel sits the emblem of an eagle, wings spread, head to the side, atop a whale in profile, tail up. Over 2200 buttons in shell and abalone outline the crest and borders of the blanket. A half circle is cut out of the top edge to fit around the wearer’s neck. A strip of black felt sits to the side, to be fastened around the neck.

Culture
Nuxalk and Heiltsuk
Material
wool fibre, shell, abalone shell, fibre and plastic
Made in
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Loincloth3059/1

Loin cloth made of strung seeds. Unbleached cotton fibres make a grid for the oblong grey and brown tururri seeds to be tightly strung onto, in vertical rows. Woven fibre borders hold the grid together, and a short, thick fringe of the same material hangs from the bottom. Long twisted ties dangle from the corners of the cloth, and small red and brown feathers are attached to the short sides by red and white beaded strands.

Culture
Wai-Wai
Material
tururri seed, cotton fibre, feather and plastic
Made in
Guyana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Belt3052/28

Leather studded belt (part of a man's costume with 3052/25-32). The belt is wide, made of stiffened brown leather covered in silver plastic studs in several shapes: triangular, circular, flower and ovoid that make up a set of repeating patterns. A large rectangular buckle is attached to the belt. It has a silver plate at centre engraved with short lines that make up a pattern of concentric designs. Interspersed are circles of red and green and small dots of orange and blue. The underside of the belt is undecorated white leather, with a brown flap at end opposite the buckle that contains two rows of holes.

Culture
Ukrainian
Material
leather skin, aluminium metal, metal and plastic
Made in
Ukraine
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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