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Model CanoeA401 a-b

A painted brown wood model canoe (part a) with a human figure (part b). The interior of the canoe (part a) has an inner red rim and three horizontal rectangular bench seats, each of which has a hole drilled through the middle. The vertically grooved blue bow has an animal figure carving with big bulging black eyes, upraised three-lobed black eyebrows, an open mouth tha has red lips, and plain teeth, a red nose, and a blue body. The plain blue stern has a painted abstract motif consisting of a central circular blue eye that has teeth toward the middle of the boat and red extensions following the contours of the boat end. A human figure (part b) with a hat is sitting on a bench. The figure (part b) is sitting in a crouching, and curling position with its knees bent, and its elbows bent directly above with three curling figures for each hand. The figure's black eyes are surrounded by a dark blue area with black eyebrows above and a red mouth with a red body. The red and blue hat is cylindrical at the top and flares downward and outward at the bottom.

Culture
Heiltsuk
Material
paint and wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA3681

Face mask painted in black, green, white and red. Black forehead, heavy black brows that extend down to black cheeks, nose and chin. The area around the eyes is green with a scalloped bottom edge, bordered by white. The eyes themselves are black solid circles, with white around them. The nostrils and lips are red, with black and white around the mouth; both sides have a set of three vertical white carved and painted lines.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA5272

Mask with a black design on natural wood on the forehead, heavy black eyebrows on off-white brows, green around protruding red-rimmed eyes with black pupils, a series of crescent shapes to the sides of the eyes painted black and white, a white nose with red nostrils, protruding stylized cheeks with black, red and white designs, red protruding lips with white and black around the mouth, and a border of black with incised white diagonal lines that runs from the ends of the eyebrows over the chin.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cantonese Opera FlagN1.838 d

Chinese characters in gold embroidery, on deep pink ground with plain turquoise border on three sides, white on side hanging from staff. Black Chinese characters at bottom back of white border. Curved staff has light green silk fringe at gold painted tip.

Culture
Chinese: Cantonese
Material
bamboo grass, silk fibre, cotton fibre, gold metal, wood ?, gesso ? and paint
Made in
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cantonese Opera FlagN1.838 c

Chinese characters in gold embroidery, on deep pink ground with plain turquoise border on three sides, white on side hanging from staff. Black Chinese characters at bottom back of white border. Curved staff has light green silk fringe at gold painted tip.

Culture
Chinese: Cantonese
Material
bamboo grass, silk fibre, cotton fibre, gold metal, wood ?, gesso ? and paint
Made in
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA8429 a-b

Mask (a) made from two separate pieces of wood and joined at centre at an angle with a triangular support at the top. The face is painted with heavy black eyebrows that have arched blue design elements above them, light blue around the eyes, red on the nostrils and lips, a black moustache, a red scalloped line design and a black line curving from the nostrils to the chin, and a blue scalloped design under the mouth. The remainder of the face is painted white. A tuft of feathers affixed to a tapering wooden stick with blue string and off-white adhesive fabric tape (b) fits into a hole at the top of the mask. A pencilled in design is visible on the cheeks.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, feather, paint, fibre, adhesive and dye
Made in
Blunden Harbour, British Columbia, Canada ? or Ba'as, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BowlA406 a-b

A wood dish (part a) in the form of a beaver, with a lid. The dish (part a) has a black body with the black eyes surrounded bya a blue area. The mouth is open with teeth, two of which curve to loop outward. The black nose has nostrils. The small ears at the top are painted pink-red. The paws and the rim are painted pink-red. The tail is carved with a lattice work pattern. The lid (part b) has a human head design with a black killer whale fin on the head. The human head's black eyes are surrounded by a blue area with black eyebrows above. The red mouth is slightly open, and there is a big nose. The arms are resting on top of the lid in a W-like shape. The killer whale fin has a hole outlined with pink-red. The top of the lid is black. The rim of the lid has an alternating pattern of black and natural brown coloured diagonal bands.

Culture
Heiltsuk
Material
paint and wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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LadleA3580

A brown wood ladle that has a deep bowl with a flat bottom and a handle carved in the form of a bird's head with eyes, nostrils, and a mouth with teeth on both sides. The interior of the bowl has an inner rim. Painted with feather motifs consisting of a horizontal black dotted band along the exterior neck and five horizontal feathers along each side of the upper body which are decorated with black dotted lines and a section of diagonal dotted lines below. There is a facial image on the end of the bowl exterior, which has two eyes, large black eyebrows, an open mouth with teeth, and three sections of lattice work around the sides, and the top of the face.

Culture
Wuikinuxv
Material
wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bentwood BoxA8335 a-b

Bentwood box with lid (part b). Holes bored on ends for rope handles. Carved with design elements. The front has a design consisting of a somewhat square-like shape that has an inward curve around the top middle, creating a two-lobed effect with red eye-like features at the opposite bottom ends. Black upward angled diagonal lines are at either side and curve inward around the top inward curve. The ends are carved with a head-like design, in profile facing towards the front panel. The left end has an eye surrounded by dots and a three-lobed shape above while the right end has an eye surrounded by a black area and a fin-like shape above. The back panel is red. Colours are red, black, and white. Lid (part b) has an upstanding ridge on one side which has a design consisting of central vertical light band emanating with downward pointing diagonal red and black lines with a vertical light band of black dots at either side.

Culture
Wuikinuxv ? or Heiltsuk ?
Material
wood, fibre and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA4320

Mask with hooked nose, flared nostrils, downturned mouth, and a rim that estends from one side of the jaw over the top of the mask to the other side of the jaw. The mask is painted white with a black rim, black designs on the top of the head, heavy black brows, black around the eyes, black and red on the nostrils, a thin black moustache, red downturned lips, and a red and black design on the cheeks. Green cord is strung through holes at the sides and top centre on the reverse. Fragments of off-white fabric are attached with nails to the sides on the reverse.

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