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Weaving Tool2990/761

Wooden weaving or knitting tool (needle?; heddle rod?). Thin stick with an acute point and a monkey decoration at the other end. The monkey has both hands up and incised bands in body with dots in the interior. Two incised bands with twelve horizontal and incised lines each: one in the middle and the other one near the point. Slightly broken and cracked.

Culture
Chancay
Material
carob tree wood
Made in
Lima, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Weaving Tool2990/760

Wooden weaving or knitting tool (needle?; heddle rod?). Thin stick with an acute point and a knob at the other end. Slightly broken and cracked.

Culture
Chancay
Material
carob tree wood
Made in
Lima, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Weaving Tool2990/759

Wooden weaving or knitting tool (needle?; heddle rod?). Thin stick with an acute point and a knob at the other end. Slightly broken and cracked.

Culture
Chancay
Material
carob tree wood
Made in
Lima, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mongwu, the Owl Katsina2004.63

Gift of the McFarland Family on the occasion of the 80th Birthday of James C. McFarland.

Culture
Pueblo and Hopi
Material
cottonwood tree root, paint, leather and feather
Holding Institution
Portland Art Museum
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Pipe1002

The cord is commercial.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
root, tree, nail, iron metal, cord and cherry wood
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Yarn, Yellow DyedE/2088
Ritual Mask2523/2

Mask with projecting eye ridges and a projecting nose with two circular, white nostrils on either side, and a base painted white. The head is cone-shaped. Red triangles project from the top of the head at the front. It is painted green and black on one side with a white stripe. The right side is painted red with a white stripe and a border of alternating black and white triangles.

Culture
Ni-Vanuatu
Material
fern tree wood and paint
Made in
Ambrym, Malampa, Vanuatu
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fern Tree CarvingIh220

Dark carving has large protruding circular eyes and a hooked beak nose. In profile, the head is encased in a crescent-like shape for hair ? that thins out along the lower portion below and in front of the hooked beak nose. Has a large belly with the hands clasped underneath.

Culture
Ni-Vanuatu
Material
tree fern wood
Made in
Vanuatu
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Handmade Paper2636/1

Rectangular piece of off-white handmade Chinese paper. Paper is undecorated and coarse, with rough edges.

Culture
Naxi Dongba
Material
gou tree bark
Made in
Yunnan, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa ClothC933

The tapa cloth is natural in colour with designs in greyish-dark green. There are two repeating designs: a human-like figure with a long body and a shape resembling a sideways 'H'. The figures are repeated in rows, on one side of the cloth.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
banyon tree bark, paint and indigo pigment
Made in
Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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