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FigureIe472

Figure depicting a standing female decorated with red seeds on the eyes and stomach, a fibre fringe threaded through the nostrils, and stained dark brown overall. The figure has a painted face in white and yellow as well as stomach and chest markings in white. She wears a sennit fibre skirt with tufts of sennit fibre at the top of the head. Decorated with feathers at the neck and front right leg.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood, seed, feather, sennit fibre, paint and stain
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FluteIe486

Tall conical shape, hallow wooden flute. The body tapers at the top where a head is carved in relief. The head has a slightly pointed top, inlaid cowrie shell eyes, long protruding nose with open nostrils, a wide open mouth and large ears. The face is painted brown with white decorative outlines. The body or flute is incised with repeating bands of curvilinear design. It has a large hole in the centre front with a jagged ridge extending from the hole down to the base. Along the ridges are several brown sennit fibre tufts.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
sennit fibre, wood, cowrie shell, pigment and stain
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskIe485

Carved wooden spirit mask in an elongated oval shape. In lower centre is a human face with protruding round eyes, flared nostrils, open mouth with carved teeth and small ears. Covering over the inset face are concentric points meeting vertically from oval background, each one overlapping above and below the face. Four below and six above. Small knobs at both ends; top has a small woven fibre tie.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood, stain, lime mineral, charcoal pigment and fibre
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Suspension HookIe483

Carved wooden basket hook consisting of a female figure with a long oval shaped face and a conical-shaped headdress. The face has incised, tattoo-like detailing on the cheeks, a long nose, inlayed shell eyes and a slightly protruding tongue. The arms hang down to the knees which are slightly bent. The body is rounded; the genital area is exposed. The crescent shaped base has stylized incised band designs that are incorporated into a central face. Along the sides of the body is a rounded, triangular repeating design. The reverse is carved; the centre has a protruding crocodile up the back. The wood is stained black with a clay(?) dust coating.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood, stain, shell and clay ?
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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PanelEg442

Panel depicting a deity carved in relief with four arms, a tiered headdress, beaded necklaces and bracelets, a halo with leaf-like edges, the head of a creature depicted above the figure's headdress and flanked with two scrolling protrusions. The figure is standing on a "cyma" moulding-like base with an incised vegetal motif.

Culture
South India
Material
wood and stain ?
Made in
India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Snowshoes1003/78 a-b

Dark brown pair of snowshoes in beaver-tail shape with long, thick skin ties. Skin latticework is tightly wound and divided into three different sections--the toe, the main body, and the tail behind the heel--as divided by two cross-bars.

Culture
Arctic America ?
Material
skin, wood and stain ?
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BowlIa334

Dark brown, boat-shaped Punahinan.

Culture
Philippines
Material
wood and stain ?
Made in
Luzon, Philippines
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskEe101

Dark brown wooden mask of a man's face; ears protrude from the sides, articulated nose with nostrils, open mouth, and three bulbous lobes beneath the chin.

Culture
Himalayas
Material
wood and stain ?
Made in
Nepal
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Gong Beater1170/25

Beater consisting of a dark wooden shaft and a rubber head. Shaft has a small knob at the head end and then two grooves around it below the head. It then tapers to another thin groove and another knob with a hole through it at the handle end. The rubber is in two sheets and is held around the shaft by two rows of nails.

Culture
Western Indonesian ?
Material
wood, stain and rubber
Made in
Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Paddle1158/3

Long narrow rectangular paddle at each end, also decorative features near each grip, plain centre.

Culture
Inuit
Material
wood and stain
Made in
Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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