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Thorn CarvingAf435

Standing figure representing a woman holding her arms above her head. There is a head ring and a broken pot at her feet. She is wearing a wrap-around skirt. Her head, limbs, and torso, and the pot are dark brown. The skirt and the head ring are are light yellow-brown. The base is light brown wood.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
egun thorn, rice adhesive, atum thorn and wood
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thorn CarvingAf434

Two figures representing bareheaded males sitting on cylindrical stools facing each other. A black and white checkered board is balancing on their knees with three dark and three light checkers on the board. Clothing is light yellow-brown. Limbs, heads, and stools are dark brown. Base is of light brown wood.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
atum thorn, ink, wood, rice adhesive and egun thorn
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thorn CarvingAf433

Figure representing a male standing with a gun in the vertical position with the stock facing upwards. He is wearing a shirt and short trousers. Head, limbs, and part of the gun are dark brown. Clothing and part of gun are light yellow-brown. The base is light brown wood.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
egun thorn, wood, rice adhesive and atum thorn
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thorn CarvingAf424

Two figures representing people. One is standing, slightly bent with a cylindrical drum on a strap around the neck, and wearing a hat, a short-sleeved shirt, and knee-length trousers with small sticks in both hands. Other figure is standing on the head and forearms wearing knee-length trousers and legs bent forward from hips. Shirt, trousers, and drum head is light yellow-brown. Figures and body of drum are dark brown. Hat is light red-brown. The small sticks are light brown wood. The base is light brown wood stained brown.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
rice adhesive, wood, egun thorn, atum thorn, stain and fibre
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thorn CarvingAf423

Three figures representing women. Two women are pounding yams with a double-headed pestle and a single-headed one. The third is stirring cooking yams with a long handled spoon. Two figures are wearing knee-length skirts and tops while a third is wearing a skirt. Two have similar flat hairdos while the other has a conically shaped hairdo. The yams are in a mortar sitting on the ground and in a pottery cooking bowl elevated over a fire. Head, limbs, and cooking pot are dark brown. Clothing, pestle, mortar, and spoon are light yellow-brown. The yams are light red-brown. All are glued to a light brown base covered with earth.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
atum thorn, wood, rice adhesive and egun thorn
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thorn CarvingAf422

Figure representing a man wearing a sleeveless shirt and knee-length pants is climbing a palm tree with an adze on his left shoulder. He is being supported by a rope belt. Palm nuts on the tree and on the base which is plywood covered by variegated thorn shavings. Heads, limbs, adze, and palm tree are dark brown. Clothing is light yellow-brown. Palm nuts are light red-brown.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
atum thorn, rice adhesive, stain, wood and egun thorn
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thorn CarvingAf421

A carved scene of a tree trunk covered with thorns and having a five-rung ladder set against the side. There is a bareheaded man on the third rung with a hatchet over his right shoulder. A man with a conical hat is on the ground holding the right side of the ladder and with a machete in his left hand. A basket is sitting on the ground to the left of the ladder. The men are wearing short-sleeved loose shirts and knee- length pants. The ground is covered with chips and shavings. Shirts, pants, machete, and basket are light yellow-brown. Heads, limbs, and hatchet are dark brown. Man's hat is light red-brown. The ladder is light brown wood. The base is covered in variegated thorn bush shavings.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
egun thorn, rice adhesive, atum thorn, wood and stain
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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DrumAf473

Round leather drum secured to ceramic base by wooden pegs driven through the overlapped then glued leather. Drum head is white. The ceramic ring is red. There is a fibrous hook.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
wood, clay, leather skin and fibre
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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DrumstickAf472

Curved wooden drumstick. The small round head has been covered with leather.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
wood, leather skin and adhesive
Made in
Ibadan, Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BellAj150

Cattle bell made from a small whole tortoise shell that has two wooden clappers attached with rawhide thongs through two holes in the upper shell. Twelve complete geometric shape blocks on the top shell with an entire bottom shell as well. Geometric shape blocks have orange-brown middles and are black on the outside with contour lines.

Culture
Karamojong
Material
tortoise shell, wood and leather skin
Made in
Uganda
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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