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La defensa del maiz3289/103 a-f

Stencil set showing a person crouched down, wearing a protective suit with respirator, and holding a large syringe. Stencils installed as a set of six: two rectangles high, three layers deep. Each stencil layer was aerosol painted with a different colour - light taupe, dark taupe, and black.

Culture
Mexican
Made in
Oaxaca, Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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La defensa del maiz3289/102 a-i

Stencil set showing a person wearing a protective suit, bent forward, in partial profile. Stencils installed as a set of nine: three rectangles high, three layers deep. Each stencil layer was aerosol painted with a different colour - light taupe, dark taupe, and black.

Culture
Mexican
Made in
Oaxaca, Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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La defensa del maiz3289/101 a-i

Stencil set showing a person wearing a protective suit and respirator, slightly bent forward, with his hands/arms partially raised. Stencils installed as a set of nine: three rectangles high, three layers deep. Each stencil layer was aerosol painted with a different colour - light taupe, dark taupe and black.

Culture
Mexican
Made in
Oaxaca, Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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La defensa del maiz3289/100 a-l

Stencil set with outlines of aerosol paint, showing a person wearing a protective suit and respirator with hands raised above head ("hands up, don't shoot" position). Stencils installed as a set of twelve: four rectangles stacked, three layers deep. Each stencil layer was aerosol painted with a different colour - light taupe, dark taupe and black.

Culture
Mexican
Made in
Oaxaca, Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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La defensa del maiz3289/99 a-l

Stencil set showing a woman in partial profile pointing a rifle to viewers right. The woman wears a wrap on her head, blouse, long skirt and sandals. Stencils are installed as a set of twelve: three layers deep; three rectangles high in one stack (parts a-c, e-g, i-k) with additional rectangle at the upper right (parts d, h, l), showing the end of the gun. Each stencil layer was aerosol painted with a different colour - light taupe, dark taupe, and black.

Culture
Mexican
Made in
Oaxaca, Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3223/14

A drawing of five skulls on a one-sided piece of paper. The drawing is horizontally oriented. The top-right edge of the paper is cut into a concave curve; the bottom-right edge is cut at a forty-five degree angle. The background of the drawing is decorated with crisscrossing assemblages of line patterns of varying lengths and thicknesses. There are two parallel orange lines extending horizontally from the very left skull to the right edge of the paper; all of the line assemblages above the parallel lines are drawn in orange ink, below the lines are both orange and yellow assemblages. In the foreground, five human skulls are drawn in a row; the skulls are outlined in dark green ink, the interior space is white, and the eye sockets and nasal cavities are decorated with crisscrossing green line patterns. The reverse-side of the paper is blank.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hupacasath
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3223/6

A vertically oriented drawing on a single-sided piece of paper. At the top of the page is a decorated crescent-shaped being with eyes, a mouth, and a curled nose. A small coastal mountain scene is drawn below. Under the mountain scene, in the middle section of the page, are six human-like figures, and a human skull. The human-like figures all have their hands in the air, their hair is drawn upwards suggesting that they are moving in a downward direction, and they all have circular eyes and mouths. The largest human-like figure is embellished with male genitalia. The skull, larger than any of the human-like figures, is positioned horizontally in the centre of the page. At the very bottom of the page is a decorated thunderbird(?) with a human-like left hand and an arrow extending outwards from its mouth. The reverse-side of the page is blank.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hupacasath
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3223/4

A drawing on a blue-grey coloured bookmark. The front-side of the bookmark is a hand-drawn image of a killer whale with an exaggerated body that extends around the head of the whale to the top edge of the bookmark. Above the head is the whale's dorsal(?) fin; at the very top of the bookmark is the whale's tail. The dorsal fin is decorated with three creatures, all with eye-shapes and teeth. Two human skulls are drawn on the whale, one on the whale's head and the other between the tail flukes. The whale's tongue extends outwards towards the left edge of the bookmark. An inverted lightning serpent(?) is drawn at the bottom of the bookmark; the head of the serpent is decorated with abstract shapes, a crisscross pattern, and stars. A human skull is drawn within the curve of the serpent's body. The reverse-side of the bookmark is machine-printed in black ink with information for an "I.Con II" conference, including dates, location, etc.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hupacasath
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3223/2

A pencil drawing on a diamond-shaped piece of white paper. The front-side of the paper is a hand-drawn image of a thunderbird, set against a white background with seven small grey stars. Drawn above the head of the thunderbird is a large diamond-shaped star with a trail of dashes suggesting that it is a shooting star. Two rounded feathers(?) sit atop the bird's head. A circular eye is surrounded by a teardrop-like shape. The beak is decorated with a tower-shape in an arch, and circular ovoid. A waving arrow extends from the mouth of the bird. A line of wide rounded zigzags, starting at the base of the bird's head, descends into a talon(?) decorated with a horizontally positioned oval with a cross. A wing, extending from the torso, is embellished with a creature with teeth and an eye-shape(?), an inverted tower-shape, and two shallow crescents.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hupacasath
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3223/60

A drawing of a whale on a tan coloured paper advertisement for a bookstore and artisan studio. The paper is horizontally oriented. On the left half of the front-side, two two-story buildings with signs above their doors are machine-printed in red ink; an address and a small map, enclosed by a border, are printed in red ink on the right half of the page. Positioned above the building entitled "Artisan's Studio" and the address is a whale hand-drawn in pencil. The top horizontal red border is used as the back spine of the whale. The mouth of the whale is lined with baleen. The whale's eye is a circular ovoid; above the eye is the whale's blowhole. The pectoral fin is grooved and is decorated with an elongated diamond-shape, a tower-shape, and four crescents. The whale's tail fluke is decorated with a small tower-shape and a crescent. On the reverse-side, the left half of the page lists the commercial information of the artisan's studio; it is printed in red ink and is enclosed by a red border. The right half of the page lists the bookstore's commercial information; it is printed in red ink and is enclosed by a red border.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hupacasath
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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