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BowK4.243

Bow composed of a cylindrical segment of wood that tapers slightly towards the rounded ends where a length of twisted skin thong is tied at a notch in the wood.

Culture
East African
Material
skin and wood
Made in
Tanzania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ClubK4.215

Club carved from a length of wood, circular in cross-section, that narrows towards the centre and has ends that each taper to a point. One end is decorated with a thick band of incised cross-hatched lines.

Culture
Maasai
Material
wood
Made in
Tanzania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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QuiverK4.246 a-s

Woven rectangular quiver (part a) with eighteen arrows (parts b-s). Quiver: light and dark cane woven together. Arrows: rattan (?) shafts with incised designs and long metal points attached at the head (parts b-f); rattan (?) shafts with incised designs, leather fletchings and variously shaped metal arrowheads (parts g-s); five shaft-headed arrows for birds, others for larger animals.

Culture
East African
Material
iron metal, leather skin, stem ? and rattan ?
Made in
Tanzania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Skirt1060/84

The skirt is made of brown grasses with painted palm leaves. The grass is woven into a thick fibre band along the top of the skirt. Also woven into the band are palm leaves decoratively cut and painted red, orange and brown.

Culture
Samoan
Material
fibre, palm leaf, grass and paint
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cape1060/78

Feather trimmed cape. Woven from off-white commercial wool yarn with a twined plant fibre weft. The ends of small brown and green feathers have been caught in each twist of the weft in a wide border around the edges. The central panel has several brown feathers inserted in the same fashion. Black yarn alternates with off-white yarn at the short ends, and there is an inner border of green and yellow yarn.

Culture
Maori
Material
wool fibre, feather and dye
Made in
New Zealand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Skirt424/4

Cape composed of flax leaves that have been scraped into fibres, woven together wih a band at the waistband and using regularly spaced single pair twining the top half of the skirt. Each row is overlaid with intermitently scraped leaves, resembling stalks, and the bottom half is comprised mostly of free-moving stalk-like leaves. Several tufts of grey downy feathers are attached intermittently near the waistband.

Culture
Maori
Material
new zealand flax fibre and feather
Made in
New Zealand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Boots424/3 a-b

Pair of skin boots with the uppers and legs made from a dark brown skin and a yellow skin sole. The cuffs are folded over and edged with dark grey fabric with red herringbone pattern.

Culture
Arctic America
Material
seal skin, fibre, dye and bearded seal skin
Made in
Iuugivik, Quebec, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headdress1060/61

Headdress consisting of concentric rings of hide and a circle of hide at the top of the crown, all joined by strands of beadwork in dark red, dark blue, medium blue, white, and light green with a fringe at the rim of small blue and white beads as well as larger purple beads. There are four short beaded strands also attached at the rim as well as two long strands of larger blue and green beads alternating with lengths of small white beads and intersperced with light pink beads as well as large painted wooden(?) beads in green and red. Two brass hooks are attached to a hide loop at the rim.

Culture
Alutiiq ?
Material
glass, moose skin, paint, brass metal, cotton fibre and wood ?
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Arrow Sash1060/77

Finely woven red sash with multicoloured, zigzagging arrow designs woven down the length. Fringe at ends. Colours used: red, white, blue, green, yellow.

Culture
Metis
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Manitoba, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Blanket424/5

Red woolen trade blanket covered with groupings of feathers attached to fur-trimmed discs of dyed porcupine quills; hair tassels anchored to pieces of purple felt-like material are also attached. Blanket is an elongated rectangular piece with two dangling feather tassels at the bottom and extended strips at the top, creating a circular head-like opening.

Culture
Plains
Material
wool fibre ?, feather, porcupine quill, dye and hair
Made in
Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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