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MaskA4289

Mask with a scalloped scale symbol edge at the top, slightly bulging eyes, a hooked nose with flared nostrils, and an angular, open mouth. The mask is painted with green, white and red on the scalloped top edge, white overall with heavy black brows, green around the eyes, a red and black design on the temples, green around the cheeks, red on the nostrils, a black scalloped gill symbol design around the mouth, a black moustache, red lips, and a black chin. An off-white cord is attached on the reverse through holes at the top and side edges.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
fibre, cotton fibre, wood, paint and metal
Made in
Blunden Harbour, British Columbia, Canada ? or Ba'as, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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DrumEh171

Drum made from a cylindrical wooden frame. Skin is stretched over each end with strips of skin that run from end to end. The wood has alternating thin and thicker incised bands that have been painted black, and the wood is varnished. There is a red fabric strap attached through skin loops at either end.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
wood, dye, fibre, skin, lacquer and paint
Made in
Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ShieldK4.360

Shield with overall convex oval shape made from skin sewn with strips of skin to a bent wooden frame. The skin is painted with reddish-brown and black geometric designs and has a raised centre. An animal-like figure is painted in reddish-brown and white on the reverse. There is a length of wood attached at the reverse that is bent at the centre to form a handle. A length of fibre and a legth of skin are attached through holes at either end of the handle.

Culture
Maasai
Material
skin, wood, paint and fibre
Made in
Kenya ? or Tanzania ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ShieldK4.359

Shield with overall convex oval shape made from skin sewn with strips of skin to a bent wooden frame. The skin is painted with reddish-brown, faint white, and black geometric designs and has a raised centre. An animal-like figures are painted in reddish-brown and black on the reverse. There is a length of wood attached at the reverse that is bent at the centre to form a handle and secured with skin straps.

Culture
Maasai
Material
skin, wood and paint
Made in
Kenya ? or Tanzania ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA6168

Mask with movable lower jaw, curved lines representing gills on the cheeks, and a rounded beak-like nose. The mask has a cedar bark fringe at the top, back and bottom. The mask is painted black with white delineating the eyebrows, nostrils, lips and eye sockets, white gill lines, green around the eyes, red nostrils and lips, and a white curvilinear line that extends from the corner of the mouth to between the eye socket and nostril on both sides.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, cedar bark, fibre and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fish MaskA6222

Mask in the shape of a fish's head with incised curved gill-like lines on the cheeks, a pointed face, a movable jaw, and two copper thunderbird-like ears with curled tips on top of the head. A cedar bark fringe with a twisted cedar bark border and off-white feathers are attached at the top of the mask and extend down the back. The mask is painted a metallic grey with black eyebrows, white gill-like incisions, red nostrils and lips outlined in white, silver around the eyes with two dotted lines at the bottom of the eye sockets, and black and red designs on the ears.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
cedar wood, feather, copper metal, fibre, cedar bark 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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HeaddressA3685

Headdress representing a wolf's head with a long snout, pronounced nostrils, a movable lower jaw, protruding rounded ears, and a bent branch frame at the back. Painted black with red nostrils and lips, black rectangles on the top lip, green around the eyes, white lines delineating the eyebrows and edges of the eye sockets, white designs on the ears, and a white strip down the top of the snout to the back of the head. The underside of the lower jaw is painted with a design in black. There are rectangular recesses in the eyebrows, presumably for shell inserts. Small holes in the sides of the snout.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, fibre, paint and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeaddressA4241

Wooden wolf headdress, or mask, adorned with a cedar bark fringe at the top back, and the mask has an elongated snout with pronounced nostrils as well as protruding rounded ears at the top of the head. Made from two pieces of wood joined by nailing. The mask is painted black with grey lines delineating the eyebrows, eye sockets, nostrils, and upper lip. The mask is also painted with green around the eyes, red design elements below the eyes, red and grey designs inside the ears, red nostrils and lips, and grey teeth.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, fibre, cedar bark and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeaddressA4502

Wolf headdress made from two pieces of wood nailed together with a long snout, prominent nostrils, and two rounded ears at the top of the head. The headdress is painted black with white outlining the eyebrows as well as the top of the nostrils and upper lip, green around the eyes, red beside the eyes, a red design element to the sides of the mouth, red nostrils and lips, and two rows of exposed teeth and fangs. Cloth fragments are attached around the back of the headdress with metal nails. The ears are unpainted.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
metal, wood, fibre and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA6303

Mask depicting a beaver/Bagwis figure painted with a black and white design on the forehead and cheeks, green around the black and white circular eyes, black eyebrows that extend down to the dip of the nose, flared red nostrils, two large protruding teeth with red lips, and black and white crescent-shaped lines to either side of the mouth. There is a hole at the top of the forehead through which is attached a length of off-white string knotted with a loop at the top.

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