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SpoonK5.7

Spoon carved from one piece of wood with a bowl that has a slightly pointed tip, and a long, curving handle with a carved tip that is cut in half and tapers to its tip. simple incised and dark brown burned linear design on the underside of the bowl, and the tip of the handle is also burned to a dark brown finish.

Culture
Zulu
Material
wood
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpoonK5.4

Spoon with ovoid bowl and flat rim that is parallel to the cylindrical handle. The handle tip is carved in an angular shape, and nearly one third of the way up the handle from the bowl is a slightly elevated, thick band that has been burnt to a dark brown finish. The edge of the bowl rim has also been burnt to a dark brown finish.

Culture
Zulu
Material
wood
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpoonK5.3

Spoon with ovoid-shaped bowl that has a lip that is parallel to its handle. The handle surface is burnt to a dark brown finish with a diamond-shaped notch pattern overall and a hole at the end with string threaded through for hanging. The lip of the bowl is also burnt to a brown finish.

Culture
Zulu
Material
wood
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpoonK5.2

Spoon with ovoid-shaped bowl that has a pointed tip, and a long cylindrical handle with a giraffe finial on the end. Slightly more than half of the bowl edge has a dark brown, burnt band, and there is a burnt geometric design on the reverse of the bowl. The head of the giraffe is also burnt to a dark brown finish, and the giraffe's spots have been carved into the wood.

Culture
South African
Material
wood
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceK4.352

Five figures carved into rectangular piece of wood, surrounded by a raised framed and strung with a twisted fibre as cording for the pendant.

Culture
Southern African
Material
plant fibre and wood
Made in
Angola
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceK4.351

Three pieces of wood carved and bound with fibre at the base and top. Fibre is attached to a long piece of braided cording. Each wooden piece represents a figure with simple facial features. There is a tall incised hat on the middle figure.

Culture
Southern African
Material
wood
Made in
Angola
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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WhistleA3624

Brown wood whistle that is club-shaped and bound near the middle with brown twine. There is a hollow through the handle-like end.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
fibre and wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HornA3621

A plain hollow, brown wood horn or whistle that is circular in cross section, tapering from the wider end to where it is bound with white string from where it flares outward a bit and then tapers downward and has a tapering end where it is bound with brown string.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
fibre and wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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WhistleA3619

Brown wood double whistle made of two single whistles with one shorter than the other bound together by brown twine. The shorter piece is circular while the longer piece is oval in cross section. Both pieces come to a tapering end and are bound in four places with brown twine, one near each of the ends and two near the middle. While the wider end is solid on each piece, there is a hollow (two in total) through the tapering end where there is a taper cut semi-oval hole (two in total) nearby on one side.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
alder wood and fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HornA3618

A plain hollow, flat, beak-shaped brown wooden horn or whistle. Brown root strip bound around the body, near the wider end.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
root and cedar wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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