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Shadow PuppetIb268

Puppet depicting a male human figure. Downturned white face with black moustache and eyes. Ketu, black with red band. Sumping. Black hair with a red tie. White ruffled skirt, ruffles outlined with black. Legs, arms, torso, and neck gold, pink, black, green, and red. Feet close together with black shoes. Movable arms, each with a control rod attached. Gelang on one lower arm. Handle extends down from feet.

Culture
Javanese
Material
wood, skin and paint
Made in
Java, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shadow PuppetIb267

Puppet depicting a male figure. Facial features prominent and exaggerated. Face is pink, eyes and lips are red, moustache, eyebrows, and ears are black, and ketu is green with gold bands. The figure is shown wearing a loose-fitting green jacket and tight-fitting trousers with green, gold, and brown stripes. The hands, kris, and dodot are brown. The feet are spaced and wearing black shoes. The arms are movable, and each has a black control rod attached.

Culture
Javanese
Material
skin, wood and paint
Made in
Java, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fire StickAa80 a-b

A smooth, light brown stick blackened at the thicker end (part a). One end is slightly tapered, the other, rounded. The base is a roughly carved dark brown stick (part b), stripped and flattened in the centre, with a round blackened hole.

Culture
Khoisan ?
Material
wood
Made in
Botswana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hand PuppetIa62 a-b

Costumed cloth hand puppet with carved and painted wooden head, hands and feet. Represents character of Bearded male (aggressive, with Daoist headgear and magical powers), Golden Rays style. Varnished two-toned pink face with black, white and red details. Gold crown with green and red, hair painted black with green/yellow detail, black hair beard attached in channel at chin, some missing on right side, two moustache tuffs. Body (part a) is undyed cotton flaps, attached around head, with attached pink hands with holes through sideways, partially stuffed with paper, stuffed grey cotton legs, white and green soled black boots. Pasted and stitched white silk robe (part b) with yellow and orange silk borders trimmed in pink, blue and whitish fur. Rows of silver, pink, and green sequins cover white silk. Red and silver foil wrapped thread, sequins on yellow silk, gold wrapped thread edging orange silk, with plastic sequin flowers and tin edged mirrors. Back and front centre, dragon-like figure, stuffed, covered in gold foil wrapped thread and trimmed in pink fur. Orange silk strip inside front side edge. Costume detachable, string tie at neck. Missing sequins, mirrors, torn at back where sleeves meet centre. Faint purple characters inside front bottom of costume at left, at back inside bottom centre and on back puppet flap.

Culture
Taiwanese
Material
paper, skin, metal, silk fibre, hair, lacquer, paint, wood and cotton fibre
Made in
Taiwan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model Totem PoleA1930

Model totem pole figures portraying an eagle with upswept wings perched on a whale, embellished with a face on its tail. The black eyes are surrounded by a dark green area with black brows above and a red lined beak. The upswept wings each have five feather sections painted dark green and red outlined with black. The chest has a face that has its black eyes surrounded by a dark green area. The whale is painted black with black eyes that are surrounded by a dark green area, a red nose, and red lips, with eiqht pairs of circles along each upper side of its back. "Alert Bay" written on back of bird.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskEh15 a-c

Mask depicting a humanoid face that is painted brown with a black hat, large protruding ears (the left ear is part b, and the right is part c) bulging black eyes with red rims as well as a crescent-shaped slit under each, a curved nose with large nostrils, a black moustache with upturned tips, and a small mouth with upturned red lips. The hat has two incised lines on both the top and bottom, a hole at the top centre, and has the numbers "5975" incised into the centre. There is a hole below each ear.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
nux vomica wood ? and paint
Made in
Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskEh16

Mask depicting Maha Sohona (a major devil with the head of a bear), also known as Valas Paliya (the bear apparition). The mask has a rounded snout with large nostrils, protruding eyes with black pupils each surrounded by a ring of red and with a hole under each as well as between the eyes. The mouth has red lips and jagged white teeth with a long tongue that protrudes out the front of the mouth and curls back under the chin. There are two small ears at the sides of the head, and the top of the head has an arched crest, below which is another crest with three ponts and incised vertical lines. There are two small protrusions at either side of the jaw, each with vertical incised lines. Label across inside above eyes reads, "MAHA SOHONA: Major Devil with Head of Bear. Also called Valas Paliya or Bear Apparition."

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
wood, metal and paint
Made in
Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskEh23

Mask of male face representing Maru Sanniya, the deamon of death, and also Riri Yaka, the deamon of blood. The face has protruding eyes, thick red lips, large white teeth and fangs, a moustache, and a long, pointed beard. The nose is slightly squared, and the face is painted black overall with white used to outline wrinkles on the forehead, and to highlight the nose, cheeks and eye sockets. Crescent shaped openings are located at the lower rims of the eye sockets. A cord is threaded through two holes either side of the mask, and one in the forehead.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
nux vomica wood ?, paint and hair
Made in
Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskEh22

Mask Depicting Naga Kanya (who is the serpent virgin, a semi-human female serpent water spirit) with a pink face and a headdress formed by a large cobra head with its hood extended and three smaller cobra heads at the front and sides of the forehead. The face has thin black eyebrows, downward looking protruding eyes each with a crescent-shaped hole underneath, a pointed nose, elongated ears, and small red lips. The cobras are painted in different shades of grey and the scales are represented by overall cross-hatched black lines. Secondary colours detailing the features are white, red and black.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
nux vomica wood ?, paint and metal
Made in
Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskEh47 a-c

Mask depicting a bird figure: the central head segment (a) has a pink and red beak, large bulging eyes, eyebrows with a petal motif in red, yellow, green, white and black, a scaled pattern in red, yellow, white, pink, grey and black on the face, and a headdress composed of three cobras with their hoods extended; the earpieces (b and c) are two cobras, each with their heads extended upwards and their tails wrapped around a dish-shaped disc that has a flower design.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
paint and nux vomica wood ?
Made in
Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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