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ArmourN2.1320

Full suit of armour, including leggings, skirt, tunic and helmet. Bands of lacquered bamboo are threaded together to form a flexible unit. Parts are padded and embroidered. Black plates with grey silk cord. Lined with blue floral damask fabric. Medieval style. Predominantly black, with blue and green accents.

Culture
Japanese
Material
metal, lacquer, silk fibre, bamboo grass and paint
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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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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ShieldK4.356

Shield with overall convex oval shape made from dark brown skin sewn with strips of skin to a bent wooden frame. There is a length of wood attached at the reverse that is bent at the centre to form a handle and secured with skin straps. There is a circular piece of skin with a toothed edge between the handle and the top skin surface.

Culture
Maasai ?
Material
buffalo skin ? and wood
Made in
Kenya ? or Tanzania ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SwordK4.31 a-b

Leather sheath (part a) with thick belt and thin strap. Belt band is decorated with white beads. Long plain blade (part b) with central ridge and blackened handle that tapers to a point.

Culture
Maasai
Material
steel metal, leather skin, glass and wood
Made in
Tanzania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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WhipK4.29

Whip coiled into a circle that consists of a thick braided portion at one end and a long thin portion at the other.

Culture
Maasai
Material
rawhide skin
Made in
Tanzania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ShieldK4.358

An elongated diamond-shaped wooden shield with pointed ends and two sides flaring downward, and outward with a perpendicular conical protrusion on the convex side, and a grip-like handle feature on the concave side. The convex side is decorated with brown and black sections outlined with fibre sewing.

Culture
East African
Material
wood
Made in
Tanzania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Musical InstrumentK4.23

Long triangular-shaped wood frame with a solid bottom and both sides covered with hide. A wood stick goes underneath through the middle of the skin in alignment with six tiny holes, one of which has a string sticking out. There is a hole made near the middle and another near the top.

Culture
East African
Material
skin and wood
Made in
Tanzania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BagK4.226

Rectangular woven bag in a chevron-pattern. Bottom of the bag is slightly wider than the opening. Long twisted strap attaches to each side of the bag.

Culture
East African
Material
rattan
Made in
Tanzania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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