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Storage BasketA17097

Natural and black coiled storage basket with leather handles looped over with a metal button at each end. Simple coiled work with bifurcated stitches over slat foundation. Parallel slat base construction. Raised rim on fitted lid and totally beaded surface. Beading on lid in red cherry bark and sides in alternate rows of cherry bark and grass. Lid is attached to the basket by skin straps.

Culture
Coast Salish
Material
leather skin, cedar root, cherry bark, cat-tail grass ? and metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BowA2.534

Wooden recurve cable-backed bow. Three pieces bound together with skin and braided fibre cords. A thick braided band of fibre cords runs the length of the bow on the outside of the curve. Bowstring is made of twined fibre cords.

Culture
Inuit: Inuinnait
Material
fibre, skin, yew wood, oak wood and metal
Made in
Coppermine, Nunavut, Canada and Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BowA2.532

Cable-backed bow made of seven pieces of caribou antler riveted together and tied with sinew and hide backing. Thick band of braided sinew cords run the length of the bow on the outside curve. Bowstring of braided sinew.

Culture
Inuit: Inuinnait
Material
caribou antler, skin, sinew, copper metal and ivory
Made in
Coppermine, Nunavut, Canada and Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HarpoonA2.531

Small barbed harpoon head, with iron point with bearded seal line attached to harpoon. The other end has a bone ice pick. Starting from the long curved tip point to the short straight tip point: walrus tusk (long curved tip point), bone, antler (harpoon head with metal point), walrus bone (rounded end piece), and antler (short straight tip point).

Culture
Inupiaq
Material
wood, bone, iron metal, skin, walrus tusk, antler and walrus bone
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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QuiverK4.225 a-e

Woven rectangular quiver (part a) with four arrows (parts b-e). Arrows each have a different metal point, incised designs on the shaft and leather fletchings.

Culture
East African
Material
plant fibre, leather skin, rattan ? and steel metal
Made in
Tanzania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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QuiverK4.224 a-m

Dark brown leather quiver with a fitted cap (parts a and b) and eleven arrows (parts c-m). Case molded of wet leather. Arrows consist of iron arrowheads of various shapes and sizes bound to bamboo shafts with feather fletchings at the end.

Culture
Maasai
Material
leather skin, feather, iron metal and reed grass
Made in
Tanzania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaceK4.214 a-b

Wooden stick as base, with iron head and wings forged on, and lower sleeve of iron, both covered in raised Arabic script. Central sleeve covered with brown crocodile skin.

Culture
Malagasy ?
Material
iron metal, crocodile skin ? and wood
Made in
Madagascar
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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QuiverK4.212 a-r

Long dark brown coloured tubular lidded quiver (parts a-b). Both wooden and bamboo arrows (parts c-q) are feathered, and secured with skin and fibre. Quiver (part b) has been lightly tooled with curved line patterns. Arrowhead (part r) goes with arrow (part p).

Culture
Maasai ?
Material
wood, feather, bamboo grass, iron metal and leather skin
Made in
Tanzania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Straight PickA2.447

Straight pick with a tapered point at each end made from mottled brown walrus tusk (possibly fossilized). Pick is bound to a straight handle of brown walrus baculum with rawhide lashings.

Culture
Inuit: Inuinnait
Material
rawhide skin, walrus bone and walrus tusk
Made in
Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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AdzeA2.446

Wood and bone adze in three parts lashed together with strips of skin--black stone blade is also bound to the handle with strips of skin. Bottom of handle is rounded and shallowly carved to resemble a seal's head.

Culture
Yup'ik ?
Material
bone, wood, stone and skin
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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