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HeaddressA6101

Raven headdress with separate wooden tail and separate plywood wings; painted black, red and white.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, paint and metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dance ScreenA3773

Large off-white cotton curtain with black painted design. The curtain is made from three pieces of fabric sewn together, creating long horizontal seams. The design is a thunderbird motif with outspread wings.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
cotton fibre and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Speaker's StaffA6029

Speaker's staff consisting of a cylindrical wooden staff with a tapering, cylindrical shaped piece of metal protruding from the bottom. Along the staff are seven copper-shaped pieces of wood nailed to surface, painted in brown, red and white with lines and dots. All of the images are the same. Two of the coppers have been purposely split on the top while one is complete broken in two.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, steel metal and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleA6099

Brown wood rattle consisting of two angular pieces put together, each with a semi-cylindrical handle, creating a full copper-shaped rattle nailed together. On one side, there is a face on the upper portion with black eyes surrounded by a green area, red nostrils, an open red mouth with twelve plain teeth, and green dashes around the top of the mouth. The lower portion is divided into two vertically bisymmetrical halves by black with red, green, and black upward pointing diagonal lines at either side. The other side is black.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, paint and metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleA6095

Northern style rattle carved of hardwood, composed of two complementary halves. One half shows a bear face in relief, the other shows supernatural creature imagery. Stitched together with copper wire around rattle, end of handle is wrapped with a small cord. Inside the rattle is likely pebbles, beads or lead shot.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, copper metal, paint and fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA6310

Plain oval shaped mask with small circular cut out eyes and two cut-out nostrils. Right side of mask is painted green.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Skull RepresentationA6309

Ornament in the shape of a stylized green skull. The cheeks are slightly concave, and the wood tapers from the nose to the chin, thinnest at the chin. The eyes and nostrils are recessed circular holes. There is a length of orange-brown string attached to a metal loop at the chin.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, paint, fibre and metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Neck RingA6306

Tightly knitted red string cover sewn over a core of tighlty packed cloth. Long red string fringes twined together near the top are sewn to the ring in four places that are relatively equally spaced. Oval in shape.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
fibre and dye ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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WhistleA6305

Brown double reed whistle that is square in cross section and painted grey-blue and is bound in four sections with biege-brown string, one near each end and two near the middle. While the wider end is solid, there are two hollows through the smaller end where there is a taper cut rectangular hole nearby 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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