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Cantonese Opera FlagN1.839 e

Flag attached to a curved bamboo staff (part e). The flag has bright pink characters on purple ground, with a wide mauve border. The back is unlined. The bamboo staff terminates in a gold head with pale green fringe at the top.

Culture
Chinese: Cantonese
Material
gesso ?, paint, bamboo grass, silk fibre, cotton fibre, rayon fibre ?, gold metal and wood ?
Made in
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cantonese Opera FlagN1.839 b

Flag attached to a curved bamboo staff (part b). The flag has bright pink characters on purple ground, with a wide mauve border. The back is unlined. The bamboo staff terminates in a gold head with pale green fringe at the top.

Culture
Chinese: Cantonese
Material
bamboo grass, silk fibre, cotton fibre, rayon 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 e

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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Body MaskIe415

Tumbuan 'mask' or body costume. Conical shape made of a wooden frame and wrapped with a large piece of mulberry bark that is painted with a vertical striped pattern in dark brown, light brown and orange. Along the bottom edge is a long fringe of sennit(?) dyed red and black; the sides have two red tufts. Attached to the front is an oval shaped wooden mask covered in white clay. The face has a long forehead, protruding brow, nose and red tongue. The septum has boar tusks running through; eyes are inlaid with shell. Around the eyes and nose is black and white spotted detailing. Above the mask are black feathers, a large tuft of sennit ? dyed black and painted red and white. The top back has a fibre woven plate, an erect woven handle and a pink and blue fabric decoration with white feathers. The top sides have wooden handles painted black, red and white.

Culture
Asmat
Material
palm leaf, clay, paint, feather, wood, shell, cotton fibre, plant fibre, mulberry bark, boar tusk and dye
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskEh13

Mask depicting Kappala Sanniya (which represents insanity) with a black painted face, a very small forehead, prominent brows, protruding eyes with a crescent-shaped slit below each, a bulbous nose, a prominent red upper lip, and a set of white upper teeth with a right fang. The lower jaw appears to be missing, and the left fang has broken off and is missing.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
wood and paint
Made in
Galle, Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TileCi15

Rectangular white wood-framed tile. A curling flower and leaf motif is painted in bright blue, blue-green, and red.

Culture
Turkish
Material
wood, paint, glaze and clay
Made in
Iznik, Turkey
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Granary DoorAg70

Rectangular wooden granary door or shutter, with two rows of stylized figures carved in relief on front. Peg-like protrusion from one upper corner.

Culture
Dogon
Material
wood and paint ?
Made in
Mopti, Mali
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hair OrnamentEdz1688 a-f

Six (parts a-f) small ornamental pieces that have a flower shape with a central circular green glass or mineral surrounded by twelve clear cut circular glass (?) pieces held together with metal and a green-painted wood backing. Chinese opera hair ornaments most likely from the 1920's.

Culture
Chinese
Material
wood, metal, paint and glass
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Explosive ToolEdz1686

Grey coloured wooden cube with circular hole bored in the centre. Hole has two parallel wires running through it. Thick, twisted electrical cords run from one side of the wooden square, ending in a plug.

Culture
Chinese
Material
wood, plastic, paint, metal and fibre
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Explosive ToolEdz1685

Golden wooden cube with circular hole bored in the centre--hole has two parallel wires running through it. Thick, twisted electrical cord runs from one side of the wooden square, ending in a plug.

Culture
Chinese
Material
wood, plastic, paint and metal
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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