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Gambling Game SticksA149 a-ppp

Leather pouch (part a) and sixty seven (parts b-ppp) bone game pieces. Pouch strap has an ornamental bone carving on the end. One piece (part b) has an inlaid abalone shell dot near the end and an empty hole on the opposite side. Forty five of the thin cylindrical bone sticks (parts c-uu) have incised lines around their centres. The other twenty one pieces (parts vv-ppp) are plain bone.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
leather skin, abalone shell and bone
Made in
Kitselas, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleA9275

Rattle made of two pecten scallop shells of medium size (one is purple brown while the other is cream-yellow) hanging from a light brown wood hoop bound with brown twine.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
scallop shell, wood and fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleA9274

Rattle made of two pecten scallop shells of medium size (both are brown) hanging from a light brown wood hoop bound with beige cloth.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, scallop shell and fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleA9273

Rattle made of two pecten scallop shells of medium size with the one on the top being slightly larger hanging from a light brown wood hoop.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
scallop shell and wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleA9272

Rattle made of four pecten scallop shells hanging from a light brown wood hoop bound with brown string.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, scallop shell and fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bentwood BowlA3563

Bentwood dish. Rim is curved convex and concave with operculum shells inlaid along upper edges. The last corner is pegged together and the bottom is pegged to the sides. Adzed fluting on the sides and ends. Wide band of vertical stripes carved along rim, with "x" on the centre of the ends.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
cedar wood and operculum shell
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleA2100

Rattle made of five scallop shells in decreasing size (the four largest are pink-brown while the smallest is lighter in colour) hanging from a light brown wood hoop bound with brown string.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
scallop shell, fibre and wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Frontlet HeaddressA5295 a-b

Headdress with a frontlet carved with a bear design, top and bottom figures. Inlaid with abalone shell pieces. Eyes of top figure are two pieces of mirror. Top of headdress is checker work cedar bark weaving. Cloth covered with white down. Feather at inside back dyed bright red. Red painted paws holding a face. Sea lion whiskers at top of headdress. Buttons at side and back of headdress. A cape (part b) is attached to these buttons. It is made of off-white ermine pelts with a cloth backing. Buttons used to attach next level of cloth with skins. Coloured wool(?), red, green and yellow, attached to some skins.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
cedar bark, glass, silver alloy metal ?, abalone shell, plastic, fibre, feather, eagle down feather, sea lion whisker, wood and ermine skin
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Head RingA6298

Woven cedar bark with abalone shell pieces attached to sides. Ermine pelts decorate the top. Two pieces of abalone shell carved and incised. Inner ring lined with white cloth.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
ermine skin, cotton fibre, cedar bark, abalone shell and pigment ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA6132

Carved wooden, crooked beak mask. The beak has red spilt u-shaped nostrils outlined with black u-forms that are inlayed with rectangular shaped abalone shell. Running from the brow is a central frill that protrudes outward and curves inward to the centre tip of the beak; detailed with black u-forms and inlayed abalone shell. The mouth is red, flat and protruding; bottom part of jaw is hinged with rectangular pieces of rubber. The face is black with white detailing. The eyes are black, inlayed with abalone, outlined in white and red on a white, ovoid shaped ground; brow is black and inlayed with square pieces of abalone. The inside of the mask is hollow with the exception of twisted twine pieces through the lower beak. Attached to the top ridge is a red and white twisted rope along with short, bundles of cedar stripes; longer cedar strips in the middle. The mask is painted black, white and red with Northwest Coast stylized forms.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, abalone shell, cedar bark, cotton fibre, fibre, paint, metal and synthetic rubber
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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