• Results (344)
  • Search

Item Search

The item search helps you look through the thousands of items on the RRN and find exactly what you’re after. We’ve split the search into two parts, Results, and Search Filters. You’re in the results section right now. You can still perform “Quick searches” from the menu bar, but if you’re new to the RRN, click the Search tab above and use the exploratory search.

View Tutorial

Log In to see more items.

Model Bed FrameAc217 a-b

Miniature bedstead (part a) of seven long flat half reeds. Nine horizontal round sticks hold the top of the reeds with bamboo strips in four places (coiled). Four sticks form sides, of which the bed rests on three, resulting in a slant, the direction of which slant is determined by which leg it is resting on. Mat (part b) rests on the bed. Mat plait is twilled with wrapped, and coiled borders.

Culture
Kasai
Material
wood, stem ?, fibre, bamboo grass, grass and palm leaf ?
Made in
Kasai, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
BasketAc214

Miniature winnowing basket. Shallow, and round. Twilled, and plaited in light yellow, and brown cane fibres with a hoop under the rim (in and out). Border is plain wrapped with light yellow-white plant fibre. Wrapped hook on one side with a cane strip, round, and stiff, with tie.

Culture
Lega
Material
bamboo grass and stem ?
Made in
Kasai, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
BasketEe11

Small basket with rounded edges and a four-corner bottom. Rim is also round. The basket is twilled and has two small handles to which are attached a strap. The basket is very brittle, especially the strap, which is cracking.

Culture
Adi
Material
stem ?
Made in
Siang, Arunachal Pradesh, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
MaskAf479

Mask sepicting a male face with a raised band across the forehead, stylized ears, and eyes with crescent-shaped holes underneath each. Two holes each on both sides of face are threaded with stem (?). Painted black overall with traces of off-white on the lower portion of each eye and in two vertical bands under the nostrils.

Culture
Igbo
Material
paint, stem ? and wood
Made in
Umuahia, Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
BasketAe70

Basket with a body and base of wicker plaiting on flat rigid warp with split cane weft. Decoration of false embroidery in geometric patterns of crosses and stripes, and securing rim of double splints. The base has light yellow-brown stitches, creating triangles around the base. Stiff, coiled handle, wrapped with rope, formed by two rope strands attached to either side of body with a single knot at the base. Some fading two loose strands of grass, knotted together inside the basket.

Culture
Central African
Material
grass, fibre and stem ?
Made in
Cameroon
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
BasketAe69

Basket with body and base of wicker plaiting on flat rigid warp with weft of split cane in alternating bands of purple and green. Decorations consist of false embroidery of natural coloured grasses in geometric designs of crosses and stripes. Rim of two splits secured by decoration. Five strands of natural-coloured rope interwoven through either side with two knots at the base form a double handle at the rim. One handle is stiff and coiled while the other handle is a single, longer, loose rope strand.

Culture
Central African
Material
fibre, grass and stem ?
Made in
Cameroon
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
BasketAe64

Wicker plaited basket with flat rigid warp and wefts of split cane. Attached rim and base. Rim is three splints wrapped in red raffia. Base is of a single splint covered with red, purple, and green plain plaiting. Soft handle of six strands of purple rope knotted together and attached to the rim at either side. Decoration consists of false embroidery on the body of the basket in geometric patterns of stripes and crosses in red, purples, and green with six strands of purple and green rope attached to the upper edge under the rim.

Culture
Central African
Material
stem ?, grass and fibre
Made in
Cameroon
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
ContainerEe29

Bamboo section which has been cut above the nodes at each end; one side has been drilled with a 1cm. Wide hole through the node. Around the top and bottom edges, holes have been drilled through which strands of split cane dyed purple, green and natural colours. Strands have been woven and plaited around the bamboo in a twill weave.

Culture
Himalayas
Material
stem ?, bamboo grass and dye
Made in
Arunachal Pradesh, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
BasketEe2

Small twill woven basket with a wedge-shaped bottom, reinforced; of light brown natural colour. It has a long narrow strap attached with 2 small handles.

Culture
Adi
Material
stem ?
Made in
Pasighat, Arunachal Pradesh, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
PanpipesEd1.151 a-s

Mouth organ consisting of 17 cane pipes, each with a free reed of thinner wood inserted around the circumference of flat side of black lacquered wooden container shaped like an elongated hemisphere, with a neck to use as a blowpipe. 13 pipes have 0.25cm. round hole and 2cm. split in cane; 4 pipes have neither hole nor split. Both neck and container have bone decoration, forming mouthpiece of neck and at bottom of bowl. Canes held in place by rattan strap.

Culture
Korean
Material
rattan, lacquer ?, paint ?, wax, bone, wood and stem ?
Made in
Korea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record