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Shadow Puppet1374/28

A flat tall puppet painted gold-coloured. Represents the character Bima, Pandhawa Prince. The curly black hair curves backward and upward. The black face is accentuated with red. The lower garment is black, red, and gold-coloured checkered edged with a green, red, pink, white, black, and gold-coloured floral design. There is also an alternating green and red downward spike design. There is a matching headdress. The feet are connected with a horizontal red band. The feet and the head face to the puppet's left. Each arm has a red shoulder band and bracelet which has two blue curly protrusions. The shoulders and elbows are rotatable and a marionette stick is attached through the palm of each hand.

Culture
Javanese
Material
water buffalo skin, fibre, pigment and horn
Made in
Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shadow Puppet1374/29

A flat tall puppet painted yellow-white. Represents the character Arjuna, Pandhawa Prince. There are red eyes and the three upper teeth are white. The curly black hair curves backward and upward, and are tinged with gold along the edges. The lower garment is finely perforated with a red, green, blue, and gold design. The feet and the head face to the puppet's right. There is a gold necklace with a green pendant. Two gold shoulder rings and a bracelet are on each arm. The shoulders and the elbows are rotatable and a marionette stick is attached through the palm of each hand.

Culture
Balinese ?
Material
water buffalo skin, horn, fibre and pigment
Made in
Bali, Indonesia ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shadow PuppetIb440

Two-dimensional painted puppet of an ornately dressed golden humanoid figure with long, curling black hair and wing-like shapes protruding from the back. Long, translucent yellow-brown carved sticks are attached to both hands with a third, tapering stick running up the figure's right leg and chest, ending in a looping reverse curve over the figure's ear that continues up a wing-like protrusion. Both arms have movable joints at the elbows and shoulders.

Culture
Javanese
Material
water buffalo skin, fibre, horn and paint
Made in
Java, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shadow Puppet1568/5

Two-dimensional painted puppet of an ornately dressed man (Sultan, Hamengkubuwono IX) wearing a hat. Long, translucent yellow-brown carved sticks are attached to both hands with a third, tapering stick running up the figure's left leg and chest, ending in a looping reverse curve over the figure's ear. Both arms have movable joints at the elbows and shoulders.

Culture
Javanese
Material
water buffalo skin, fibre, water buffalo horn and paint
Made in
Java, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Finger Guard730/1

Four wooden finger guards held together with a leather thong threaded through small holes. Each finger has a claw-like area with a hole in which a finger can be put with top side decorated with six incised circle decorations. Extending from hole of claw area on each finger is a flat area that curves in opposite direction of the claws and is decorated on the same face with five circular decorations. There is a small, semi-circular notch out of the end of each flat area.

Culture
Turkish
Material
wood and leather skin
Made in
Turkey
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Pattern524/8 b

Rectangular pattern made from piercing a piece of translucent skin with a small point. Pattern has an edge of floral designs and an edge of solid fill formed by fairly dense, evenly dispersed pinholes. Pattern has ink around floral parts of pattern on one side of skin.

Culture
English
Material
skin and ink
Made in
United Kingdom and Ampthill, Bedfordshire, England
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Needle Case1130/7 a-d

Small, rectangular needle case of black velvet, bound with red and dark red textile; embroidered with flower and vine motifs. Divided inside into five compartments, containing cylindrical plastic sleeves for holding needles. Lined with printed cotton; interlined with animal skin. Top flap covers needle sleeves; fastened with a loop and small shell button.

Culture
Icelandic
Material
shell, metal ?, cotton fibre, skin and celluloid plastic
Made in
Iceland
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shield1157/1 a-b

A tall thin curved hide shield with each of the four corners curving outward. The handle is a long stick down the middle which is looped at the centre. Hide binds parts of the handle to the shield. There is a ball of dark feathers (part b) that is said to go with the shield.

Culture
Karamojong
Material
wood, giraffe skin ? and ostrich feather
Made in
Uganda
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bottle1060/56

A cylindrical reddish-brown skin bottle with three circular protrusions around the top, middle, and bottom which are decorated with bark weave in a diagonal line pattern. Each of the two spaces in between these three circular protrusions has a set of two horizontal black lines painted at each edge. The top of the bottle is semi-round with a triple black line semi-circle design and tapers to a neck which has strands of skin flowing down from the rim. The round lid which also has a bark weave in a diagonal line pattern is attached to the bottle side from the top of the lid.

Culture
West African
Material
skin, glass, bark and paint
Made in
“Gambia” ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Whisk1060/69

A long cylindrical skin handle with circular protrusions all around that have some plant fibre weaving decoration. The top end of the handle has a looped skin band painted with red dots connected by a brown zig zag line. The bottom end of the handle flares out with skin strands from which grey hair flows down.

Culture
West African
Material
ink, hair, skin, plant fibre, paint and paper
Made in
“Gambia” ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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