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CornNh159

Cob of corn with primarily black kernels, and a few blue or white ones.

Culture
Hopi
Material
corn seed
Made in
Arizona, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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CornNh158

Cob of corn with kernels ranging from pale yellow to light blue-grey to dark blue. A few of the kernels are missing.

Culture
Hopi
Material
corn seed
Made in
Arizona, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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CornNh157

Cob of corn with dark red-brown kernels; three have white patches; two kernals missing from the end.

Culture
Hopi
Material
corn seed
Made in
Arizona, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleAf474

Hollow globular calabash rattle with neck leading to a smaller globular shape open at one end. Sides of large globe are covered by a netting, incorporating dark brown seed beads which fit around neck at one end leaving the other end, the bottom of the globe, uncovered. A carrying string is attached to base of netting. Calabash skin is yellow and worn in spots to show natural calabash fibre underneath.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
gourd fruit, cotton fibre and seed
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleAj136

Hollowed nut baby rattle with attached twenty-four link fine chain. Stones and seeds inside the nut. Chain is attached to the inside by an inserted stick.

Culture
Karamojong
Material
nutshell, stone, seed, metal and wood
Made in
Uganda
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeaddressIe438

Headdress composed of a piece of tapa cloth with rounded corners and decorated with bands of zigzag in red ochre. Woven and wound string with a linear pattern in light grey Job's Tears seeds and segments of black bamboo. The exposed string is rubbed with red, black and yellow pigment (?).

Culture
New Guinea
Material
bamboo grass, paper mulberry bark, fibre, seed and ochre pigment
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TorchAc215

Cylindrical torch with a bees wax, and grain compound wrapped with light green-white straw, and grass bound together with a single strip of bamboo in twined large ties. The end comes to a point opposite the working end.

Culture
Lega
Material
grass, fibre ?, grain seed, bee wax and bamboo grass
Made in
Kasai, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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DollAe93

Doll made from a piece of corn cob with the head, breasts, and buttocks made from clay.

Culture
Bira
Material
clay and corn seed
Made in
Ngbulanzabo, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleAc228

Wood stick with two openwork spherical structures, one fitted on each end. The stick passes to the other side of the sphere through the centre and is lashed in place with sphere warp elements. From these, the sphere structure is one continuous length of root(?) following the circumference, evenly-spaced and lashed to warps by rows of wood strip binding. Decorated by removing dark brown bark for light brown coloured bands. Small seeds placed in each sphere. Ends finished by wrapping wefts around warps.

Culture
Chokwe
Material
seed and wood
Made in
Luma Kasai, Angola
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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OrnamentSe141

Rectangular band of woven cloth; one end sewn finished, the other ends in several green and brown twisted strands with shell noisemakers. The band is made of three parts: a central band of complex geometric weaving in green and brown in the supplementary weft, and edged with thin brown, green and pink bands. The noisemakers are halved shells of nuts or seeds.

Culture
Shipibo
Material
cotton fibre, metal, shell, glass, seed and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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