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A long thin brown fabric piece that has a main design consisting of red flannel with white cowrie shell rosettes and white goat fur trim with leopard skin trim. The ties are made of cotton.

Culture: Ngere
Material: goat skin, cowrie shell, cotton fibre and leopard skin
Made in: Guinea
Holding Institution: MOA: University of British Columbia

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Hollow brown gourd with curved neck. Loose fibre net of grey seed beads all around produces sound when gourd is shaken. Side opening.

Culture: West African
Material: gourd fruit, fibre, shell ? and seed
Made in: Umuahia, Nigeria
Holding Institution: MOA: University of British Columbia

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Hollow brown gourd with curved neck. Loose fibre net of grey seed beads on mostly lower portion produces sound when gourd is shaken. Side opening.

Culture: West African
Material: gourd fruit, shell ?, wool fibre ? and seed
Made in: Umuahia, Nigeria
Holding Institution: MOA: University of British Columbia

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Brown wood helmet mask of an animal with bulbous eyes, ears, and horns. Large open mouth with jaws and very large teeth, five and six pairs deep. Upper teeth have incised diagonal lines. Fabric band across the forehead decorated with cowrie shells and extends back around the top of the head where a horn is attached at either side. Inside and back are filled with a light brown raffia-like material.

Culture: Senufo
Material: cowrie shell, wood and palm leaf ?
Made in: Cote d'Ivoire
Holding Institution: MOA: University of British Columbia

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