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Wanx'id: to hide, to be hidden2826/4

Black glass box with four sides and a clear glass base, open at top. The upper edge undulates from side to side. The outside surface is plain black, the inside surface of the four sides is etched with a distributive Northwest Coast design. A black and white photograph sits on the clear glass base, which is lit from below when the box is installed for exhibition. The photograph shows a group of chiefs assembled in their regalia, with a few children, two flags and the bottom of a large, carved pole in the background.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Made in
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Wanx'id: to hide, to be hidden2826/3

Black glass box with four sides and a clear glass base, open at top. The upper edge undulates from side to side. The outside surface is plain black, the inside surface of the four sides is etched with a distributive Northwest Coast design. A black and white photograph sits on the clear glass base, which is lit from below when the box is installed for exhibition. The photograph shows three women, wearing carved headdresses and button blankets, with a young child standing behind them to the right, also wearing a wooden headdress.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Made in
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Wanx'id: to hide, to be hidden2826/2

Black glass box with four sides and a clear glass base, open at top. The upper edge undulates from side to side. The outside surface is plain black, the inside surface of the four sides is etched with a distributive Northwest Coast design. A black and white photograph sits on the clear glass base, which is lit from below when the box is installed for exhibition. The photograph shows a welcome figure with its arms raised all the way up, with mountains behind.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Made in
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bone Box2696/1 a-l

Manga mural using old plywood trays that have been painted and mounted as a rectangular 12-panel installation piece. The panels are installed as four vertical rows and three horizontal rows (top, left to right: parts a-d, middle parts e-h, bottom parts i-l). Each panel is installed to swivel from a vertical to horizontal position and when viewed horizontally each panel reveals a word on its top edge. When read in order the words form the sentence: "A STACK OF PLYWOOD TRAYS BUILT TO CONTAIN FRAGMENTS OF EVERYONE'S CULTURE".

Culture
Haida
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Painting2574/91

Watercolour storyboard panel with three images. The upper portion of the panel features an urban scene with buildings and towers, focusing on the "Climate Hostil" and the "Kyoto Lodg" [sic]. The lower right corner shows a person with red eyes staring at a glowing, green television-like screen; the screen reads "Consume [and] Be Happy." The lower left corner shows the backs of three figures--one with pink hair, one with blue hair, and a blue bear--crowded around and peering into a glowing, green window.

Culture
Haida
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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The Messenger2648/1

Cast bronze mask composed of a central human face surrounded by three other faces (top and sides) and five frogs. The face on top of the central face is smaller and has hair. The other two faces are at each side of the central face and may be human or frogs. Three frogs are sitting, legs adjoined, below the central face. The frog in the middle is facing up towards the central face, with its tongue caught between the lips of the central face. The other two frogs are facing away from the central face. Two frogs sit at each side of the top smaller face, their legs joining the top face and the side faces. Series #3/6.

Culture
Tahltan and Tlingit
Material
bronze metal
Made in
Terrace, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Painting2574/98

Words painted in blue watercolour and written in black and blue ink on white paper: "[email protected] Book 2/2 Black ship...originals 38 pgs in total $ [email protected]." On the opposite side of the paper is an advertisement.

Culture
Haida
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Painting2574/97

Watercolour storyboard panel; incomplete sketch. The main image is one of a large grey cargo ship loaded with logs; a small box for text is inset in the upper right corner of this image. The upper section of the panel consists of a large box for text with a second, smaller image of the cargo boat to the right.

Culture
Haida
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Painting2574/96

Watercolour storyboard panel depicting a bear, a pink-haired woman, and a blue-haired man holding a canoe paddle in his upper right. Below this is a scene with various machinery and logs on a conveyor belt being fed into the mouth of a mechanical fish; a man with machinery in his head stands in a raised box and presses a button.

Culture
Haida
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Painting2574/95

Watercolour storyboard panel. Top part shows a smiling man in a flying canoe that is towing a large cargo ship through the air. A large orange curvilinear band resembling Northwest Coast style formlines encircles the boat. The bottom part of the painting shows a bear on one paddle and two people on another paddle, flying through the air. There are trees and tree stumps below them.

Culture
Haida
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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