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Blade BoxNa1116

Stylized walrus-shaped curved box with attached stylized bird-shaped lid. Oval cavity is roughly finished. Exterior surfaces are smooth and stained brown. Hinged lid is attached by an ivory peg and is sandwiched between curved extensions to oval container. Multi-bevelled, tapering cylinders of ivory project toward lid from extensions. The effect is of walrus tusks with the hinge peg forming eyes. The lid is oval with concave bottom and tapering head-like extension. The container tapers to a point paralleling the lid. The hinge is very stiff.

Culture
Inuit
Material
ivory and wood
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNd600

Wickerwork basket, roughly rectangular in shape, of natural coloured red bud and willow plaited in alternating horizontal bands. The lower third (approx.) is plaited in double strands. The top and bottom edges are of wrapped strands.

Culture
“Great Basin & Plateau” ?
Material
willow wood and redbud wood
Made in
USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FluteIe370

Flute consisting of hollowed bamboo held together by crisscrossed fibre. Three rings of cassowary feathers, one at the bottom, middle and top. Just below the top ring is a small hole carved out of the bamboo. The top feather ring is woven on tightly with fibre which covers this area. The stopper of the flute, above the top feather ring, is a human male figure standing full front with arms down to the side. His head is disproportionately large to the rest of his body. Standing behind him is small bird which is resting its hands on the shoulders of the human figure. Its long beak extends over the head of the human figure. The creature has ridges along its back. Tassels come out of these ridges. The bamboo and the fibre ties are covered in a black stain.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
human hair, cowrie shell, cassowary feather, sennit fibre, wood, bamboo grass, pigment and fibre
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Canoe BailerIe366

A deep wood scoop with parallel handle ending in a knob. Carved lines on the scoop curve from the mid-point to the base of the handle, joining at a human-like image. Stained black.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
charcoal, oil and wood
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Canoe ProwIe365

Canoe prow that tapers from the concave back to a rounded point at the front where it is carved into a crocodile-like head capped at the nose with a rounded point at the tip. Behind this is a carving of a head with notched rows along the forehead, large eyes and a recurved beak-like nose. The underside is carved with geometric and scale-like designs, and the surface is stained dark brown.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood and stain
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HookIe364

Carved wooden yipwon (hook figure) set in a concaved rectangular piece of wood. There are three hooks, two pointing one direction the other one pointing towards the others. In the centre there is the base of a hook which appears to have broken off. Both of the edges are carved from high to low in opposite directions giving a slightly twisted look to the piece.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Gong BeaterIe363

A solid wood stick tapering from a thick use-worn butt to a point at the other end. A wavy, eye-like pattern is carved along the narrow half and is separated from the undecorated butt end by two encircling grooves. The design is stained black on the raised parts and pigmented grey in the incisions. The undecorated wood is light brown.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood, clay, oil and charcoal
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNd589 a-b

Coiled, cylindrical cedar basket (a) with lid (b). Imbricated with light yellow grass and wild cherry bark. Slat bottom. Watch-spring coiled lid; one leather tie on outer edge of lid with geometric and representational designs over basket body; net of diamond shapes with animal figures inside. Lid has floral pattern radiating from centre.

Culture
Interior Salish: Stl'atl'imx
Material
cedar root, cedar wood, grass, leather skin and cherry bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpindleSf976

Spindle consisting of a wooden shaft with cup-shaped whorl positioned near one end. The whorl is roughly circular and smoothed by abrasion. A small cone of z spun yarn is wrapped on the shaft above the whorl and a handful of unspun white wool is attached to the twisted yarn. The fleece has some kemp or coarse hairs.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre and wood
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpindleSf975

Spindle consisting of a wooden shaft with a cone shaped whorl positioned near one end. A small section of red, two ply s twist yarn is wound on the shaft above the whorl and a ball of yarn with less plying twist is attached to the spindle.

Culture
Quechua
Material
synthetic fibre, wood and dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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