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Model Totem PoleA6682

A model totem pole depicting a frog, a bear, a whale, and a bird (from bottom to top). The frog at the bottom is lying down facing forward and has semi-oval black eyes with green brows above, red nostrils, a closed red mouth, and a green spotted and lined body. The bear is sitting on top of the frog and has rounded, circular, black eyes with an open, red mouth and a wavy green lined body. The whale is facing downward and has rounded, circular, black eyes from which small lines radiate with thin green brows above, grooved circular red nostrils, a closed, thin red mouth, and a green dotted and lined body. The bird on top has rounded, circular black eyes surrounded by a green area with a red lined beak, red dotted and green triangle spotted body, and red and green side wings.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleA6098

Brown wood rattle consisting of two rounded pieces put together, each with a semi-cylindrical handle, creating a full rounded rectangular rattle nailed together. Design consisting of a human face that has black circle in circle eyes outlined by a black tapering oval and surrounded with a green area and black brows above with a green forehead, a green nose with red nostrils, and an open red mouth showing twelve plain teeth. Black dashes go around the bottom of the mouth while red, green, and black sideways u forms go around the top of the mouth. Back of the head is black. Cedar bark is used on top to indicate hair.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, cedar bark, paint and metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleA6097

Yellow-brown wood rattle consisting of two rounded pieces put together, each with a semi-cylindrical handle, creating a full rounded square rattle nailed together. Design consisting of a human face that has black circle in circle eyes outlined by a carved tapering oval and surrounded with a green area and two semi-oval black areas on top of the head, a black dot with red detailing for the nose, and an open red mouth showing twelve plain teeth with a curving green line along the cheeks. Face is surrounded by a red halo-like projection feature with radiating red spikes around the head. There were originally nine spikes, there are only five left intact.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
cedar wood, paint and metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleA5259

Copper rattle consisting of two rounded pieces put together and inset into a cylindrical brown wood handle, creating a full rounded circular rattle surrounded by a circular red halo-like projection feature. Pieces are bolted together. Designs consisting of animal faces carved and painted on both sides. One face has black oval in oval eyes outlined by a tapering oval, red nostrils, and an open red mouth showing sixteen plain teeth. A small inward facing profile face is on top at either side. In between, there is a black split u with a green outlined u form and a black u form above. Underneath the mouth, there is a pair of inward pointing fins made of a black circle a green u form, and a black split u. The other face has a black ovoid in a green ovoid eyes, red nostrils, and an open black outlined red mouth showing two plain teeth. An inverted red u form that has a green oval within is on top at either side. In between, there is a black split u with a green u form and a pair of black split u's above. Underneath the mouth, there is a black circle at either side with curving engraved lines inward toward a black form that has a red centre in the middle.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
copper metal, fibre, wood and paint
Made in
Blunden Harbour, British Columbia, Canada ? or Ba'as, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleA6100

Light brown wood rattle consisting of two rounded pieces put together, each with a semi-cylindrical handle, creating a full rounded oval rattle. Along either sides of each piece, there is a hole to bind the two pieces together with wire. Pieces are also bound together at the top with wire. Handle is bound with brown string. Designs consisting of a face, possibly a bear and a whale? One face has black ovoid in ovoid eyes with an inverted black u form above with a plain oval within at either top side and a horizontal, red oval mouth with extending upper side lines. The other face has black outlined thin ovoid eyes with red nostrils and a black outlined open red mouth showing twelve plain teeth. Above this face, there is an inverted black outlined u form that has two plain dots at either lower side with an inverted black split u above.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, paint, copper metal and cotton fibre
Made in
Blunden Harbour, British Columbia, Canada ? or Ba'as, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleA4027

Brown wood rattle consisting of two rounded pieces put together, each with a semi-cylindrical handle, creating a full rounded oval rattle. Along either sides of each piece, there is a hole to bind the two pieces together with cedar bark. Pieces are also bound together at the top with cedar bark. Handle is bound with brown string. Designs consisting of a large human face painted on both sides and carved with a projecting beak nose that is decorated with cedar bark bound with string. Both faces have circular black pupils outlined by a plain carved tapering oval surrounded by a dark blue area with black brows above and a pair of red and dark blue split u forms above. The mouths are outlined by black with red lips with one face having a black goatee.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw ?
Material
fibre, cedar bark, wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TrayA1134

Divided tray, or box. Square as viewed from above, with sides that angle outwards towards the top edge and upright walls that divide the box into four sections. Both upright walls have curved edges, but one is much more pronounced and higher than the other. Distributive design in black and red, overall. The top edges are painted black and the outside edges of the base are painted red.

Culture
Heiltsuk
Material
lacquer, metal, paint, cedar wood and yellow cedar wood
Made in
Bella Bella, British Columbia, Canada and 'Qvuqvai, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BowlA405 a-b

Dish in the form of a frog (a) with another small frog grasping onto a slightly domed round lid (b) that fits into the back of the large frog. The large frog is painted black with red lips, and the small frog is painted with a thin coat of black all over except for the whites of the eyes and the feet.

Culture
Heiltsuk
Material
wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA5268

Mouse(?) mask, with small rounded ears, eyebrows with a peak at the top centre, a short snout, prominent incisors on the top and bottom of the mouth, and eyes inlaid with abalone shell. The mask is painted grey around the edges with dark grey stripes over green on the face and chin, black and red alternating stripes on the ears, black eyebrows, dark brown nostrils, red lips, and off-white teeth.

Culture
Heiltsuk
Material
abalone shell, wood, paint and adhesive
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleA3544

Brown wood rattle consisting of two rounded pieces put together, each with a semi-cylindrical handle, creating a full rounded rattle. Along either sides of each piece, there is a hole to bind the two pieces together with brown string. Pieces are also bound together at the top. Handle is bound with brown string. Designs consisting of a large human face painted on both sides. Both faces have black outlined L-shaped eyes that are consisting of an upper horizontal green oval (one face has plain black outlined pupils while the other face has an additional dot within) with dashes (one face has green dashes while the other face has red dashes) in the lower section, thick black brows with a black and red design above, a black nose consisting of two circles connected by an inverted u-line, a red mouth outlined by black, a curving red line along the cheeks, and an inward pointing sideways red w-shape at either side. A thin red downward pointing line is below the black brows on one face while a red line extends from the curving red line along the cheeks up along the nose and around the top of the black brows down to the inward pointing sideways red w-shape at either side.

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