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Fragment: Totem PoleA2546

Rectangular wooden pole fragment. Carved in the bottom is a bear head with large ovoid eyes, a slightly protruding snout, teeth, a protruding tongue and pointed ears. Within its ear is a small human figure. Upon the animal’s head stands a human figure with an arm extended down to the figure in the ear. Pole is unpainted.

Culture
Gitanyow
Material
red cedar wood
Made in
Gitanyow, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Feast Dish LidA2522

Dzunuk'wa (or Tsonoqua) figure with pursed lips and heavy eyebrows. The feast dish lid is painted black with white outlining the eyebrows, brown around the red-rimmed eye holes, white bordering the eye sockets, red nostrils bordered around the top with white, brown bordered with white under the cheeks and down the sides of the jaw, red at the temples, and red on the lips.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
red cedar wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bentwood BoxA7450 a-b

Tall square bentwood box (part a) with a slightly flared lid (part b). The front and back are painted red and black in different Northwest Coast stylized distributive designs. The front and back have complex designs. The side panels are painted with a black ovoid with a red line attached at the top right and bottom left corners. Box is adzed, kerfed, steamed, bent, last corner pegged, bottom pegged and nailed. The lid has traces of black paint and made of a single piece of wood.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
red cedar wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bentwood ChestA8211 a-b

Rectangular bentwood box (part a) with lid (part b). The front and back are painted red and black in different designs. The front and back have complex designs. The sides have the same motif of vertical sets of ovoids and u-forms. Designs painted in black and red with stylized forms. The lid has decorative brass studs on three edges; the studs on the front are all gone, except one.

Culture
Coast Salish: Quwutsun'
Material
brass metal and red cedar wood
Made in
Bella Bella, British Columbia, Canada and 'Qvuqvai, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bentwood BoxA17072

Double bentwood box. The box has two square-shaped pieces on each end that are connected by a narrow passage in the centre. The corners are bent into shape. The last corner and bottom are pegged and sewn.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
red cedar wood
Made in
Alaska, USA ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureA8232

Naturalistic human head carved from wood and painted red and black, with traces of green. Large metal hook at the neck.

Culture
Nisga'a
Material
red cedar wood, metal and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA1806

Carved wooden, crooked beak mask. The beak has long, exaggerated, protruding red nostrils with two large circular openings in the front. Running from the brow is a large, protruding, central black, rectangular shaped frill that projects outwards then curves downwards to the top of the beak. On the top edge of the head is a smaller, rounded, black frill that tapers into the top of the head. The mouth is red, flat and protruding. The underside of the beak is black; beak is hinged with a thin piece of metal wire. The eyes are small and outlined in black and red, surrounded by a large white, sunken, ovoid-like shape; the brow is black with red vertical stripes. Back of mask is slightly cylindrical in shape; around the top, side and bottom edges are twisted pieces of cedar. The inside of the mask is hollow with the exception of pieces of fibre twine to articulate the beak; bundles of small branches with cedar strips and a piece of eagle down. The mask is painted black, white and red with Northwest Coast stylized forms.

Culture
Nuxalk
Material
red cedar wood, cedar bark, paint, fibre, metal and eagle down feather
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Feast DishA6937

Long, wooden feast dish carved in the shape of an animal with a deep, oval shaped bowl in the middle. The tail is paddle shaped and curves downward to join the body; it’s legs are carved in relief against the body, the feet support the bowl. A human face with a downturned mouth is painted on the tail followed by a repeating pattern of red, white and green u-forms. The exterior rim of the dish is painted with a continuous pattern of alternating green and blue ovoids on a white band. Painted on each shoulder is a face in profile. Has been badly broken, and repaired.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
paint and red cedar wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Great Raven MaskA8545

Great Raven Hamsiwe’ mask. The large, carved, wooden mask has a long beak with large red, coil-shaped nostrils, with a red and white split u-form behind it. The mouth is red with two braided cedar handles on each side. The beak is black with large u-forms outlined in white along the edge of the mouth. The bottom part of the beak is hinged with large diamond shaped pieces of metal. The face has white split u-forms behind the eyes along with a white wing-like shape. The bulging eyes are black, outlined in white and red on a white ovoid shaped ground; brow is black. The underside of the beak is black with an ovoid shaped pink face with black brow, moustache and eyes along with red nostrils and mouth. Emerging from the top of the head is an elongated, protruding rounded section painted with white u-forms. The face is decorated with small cedar bundles; large cedar handles on bottom of beak. The inside of the mask is hollow with the exception of a piece of fibre twine that articulates the beak and two leather straps with metal buckles to hold the mask to the wearer. Attached at the top ridge is a dyed cedar rope and a rubber crest of u-shaped pieces painted red. The left side has a thick braid of cedar. The mask is painted black, white and red.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
red cedar bark, rubber, red cedar wood, paint, cotton fibre, skin, metal and dye
Made in
Gilford Island, British Columbia, Canada and Gwa'yasdam's, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Feast Dish LidA4342

Large wooden mask-like shaped lid carved in the form of Dzunuk'wa (Tsonoqua). She has large open mouth and eyes, pursed lips, shallow cheeks and carved nose. Painted red around the eyes and the mouth; face painted black.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
paint and red cedar wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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