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Flute Stop FigureIe481

Flute stop representing a male figure with a black and white painted face and a cylindrical post underneath its feet. The figure is wearing a tooth necklace with a cassowary feather skirt and a cowrie shell waistband. The figure is also ornamented with a cowrie shell headband, a circular piece of shell on the forehead, shell earrings, and a segment of tusk inserted through the nose with a strip of woven cord hanging from it. The eyes are inlaid with iridescent shell.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
cowrie shell, cassowary feather, fibre, tusk, tooth, paint, wood and shell
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Necklace1003/40

A necklace of mostly light blue and some white glass beads with tusk and tooth spaced throughout on a hide string.

Culture
Plains ?
Material
tusk, tooth, glass, rawhide skin and bone ?
Made in
Alberta, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure974/1

Carved tupilaq (tupilak). Standing human-like creature with a pointed head, 2 black eyes, mouth slightly open, upper and lower teeth, leaning on a face similar to its own topped by an animal head.

Culture
Inuit
Material
whale tooth
Made in
Kap Dan, Greenland
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Pendant294/11

Yellow-brown and white hollow fang-shaped object with a carved groove near one end a two holes bored through the opposite end.

Culture
Andes ?
Material
tooth
Made in
Colombia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fish Hook841/21

The end of the tooth where the metal hook is attached is lightly coloured, and the rest of the tooth is a darker brown.

Culture
Arctic America
Material
bear tooth and metal
Made in
Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sword1060/54

Long wooden sword with handle and tip that is bound with leaf material. Long edge of sword is lined with twenty-nine shark teeth attached to each side. Each tooth is perforated at the wider end and is secured to the long wooden piece with black and light-brown twisted fibre.

Culture
I-Kiribati
Material
wood, fibre, shark tooth and leaf
Made in
Nonouti, Gilbert Group, Kiribati ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureNa1676

Ivory coloured carving of a human torso, starting from the shoulders upward. Has a well defined face with deep-set eyes, a sloped nose, and a closed mouth that is slightly frowning. C-shaped carved ears are on either side of the face and are at the same level as the eyes. The figure has short hair above the ears defined by hatching on the head and has the appearance of being male. The underside of the object has a small brown hollow opening at the centre.

Culture
Inuit
Material
sperm whale tooth
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Necklace1060/12

Necklace composed of teeth strung alternatively with pale blue coloured glass beads, except for a short section composed of two large pale blue coloured globular Russian trade beads, two large oval pale pink coloured beads and two facetted tubular dark blue coloured beads.

Culture
Inuit ?
Material
walrus tooth, beluga whale tooth, fibre and glass
Made in
Alaska, USA ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Necklace1003/43

A necklace of teeth spread throughout with clear glass beads in between on a string. Some teeth have red, and others have light brown, grey, and white.

Culture
Plains ?
Material
tooth, fibre and glass
Made in
Alberta, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mask864/2

A light brown wood mask with round bulging red eyes and slits carved out underneath. The flat circular nose is outlined with black hairs painted on and with the nostrils cut out, above which there are two white curved pointed protrusions at either sides. The red mouth is carved out and open outlined with gold and black hairs painted all around. The teeth are large with four white curved tooth fangs. There is a gold crown-like headdress with a white curved pointed protrusion upward. The large ears are painted with black hairs and the lobes have red conical earrings decorated with gold. There are several black flat semi-circular protrusions decorated with gold around the sides of the mask.

Culture
Indonesian
Material
wood, tooth, metal, paint and fibre ?
Made in
Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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