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ArrowC817

The shaft is carved with dark vertically linear designs on a natural background above five cane joints. The point is plain dark wood.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood and grass
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowC818

The shaft is of plain cane. The base and the end of the shaft are wrapped with thin cane strips. The point is plain wood decorated with an 8 cm. sleeve of brown and yellow grass. The 19 cm. tip of the point has seven irregular barbs, and the very tip is wrapped with cane strip.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
stem ?, wood, grass and bone
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowC819

The shaft is carved with dark linear designs on a natural coloured ground above five of the joints. The point is plain dark wood.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood and grass
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowC820

The shaft is carved with dark vertically linear designs on a natural background above six cane joints. The point is plain dark wood.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood and grass
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Breast OrnamentC827

Skin is in three sections, sewn together. A wooden bar wrapped with woven grass is attached at the seam.

Culture
I-Kiribati
Material
stingray skin, wood and fibre
Made in
Gilbert Group, Kiribati
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model CanoeC829

Long thin canoe with one outrigger, and four paddles lashed to the beams connecting the hull to the outrigger. Very simple black vertical line decoration on canoe top.

Culture
Sikaiana
Material
wood, paint and fibre
Made in
Sikaiana, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpatulaC831

Spatula with an elongated flat blade that has a rounded tip, and a handle with four ridges. The butt end of the handle has a cylindrical finial with an incised zigzag design. Where the neck of the blade meets the handle there is an incised scrolling design. The incised designs have been filled in with white pigment.

Culture
Trobriand
Material
ebony wood and lime mineral
Made in
Kiriwina Islands, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpatulaC834

Brown-black wood piece that has a handle in the form of a crouching human figure with spiral and feather designs which are emphasized with lime. Face has large circular eyes, a long cross-shaped nose, and a wide smile with teeth. 'Blade' tapers to a flat rounded point. Triangular band design between the figure and the rest of the carved designs.

Culture
Trobriand
Material
ebony wood and lime mineral
Made in
Kiriwina Islands, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BowlC892

Semi-spherical shaped, deep wood bowl with a wide ridge at the rim. Each side has a c-like shape carved in low relief. There is a black stain on the surface. There are four holes in the ridge where it was possibly hung.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood and stain
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model HouseC893 a-b

Model house in two parts: the base (a) consists of a raised floor made from wooden slats on a frame with four posts, each with a groove in the top, and it is all lashed together with twined plant fibre; the roof (b) is a plain gable roof composed of a wooden frame lashed together with off-white string, covered on the outside with layers of palm leaves, and finished along the peak with palm leaves that have been folded over and are held with thin strips of wood woven through slits in the palm leaves.

Culture
Samoan
Material
plant fibre, palm leaf and wood
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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