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Basket1448/2

Basket with overall oval shape at rim and sides that curve outwards slightly. Base is smaller than rim. Two long, braided handles strung through the basket near the base on one side, and near the rim on the other side. One braid runs across the inside bottom, emerges on the outside on either end, is strung back through to the inside and back out again, each end finishing in a knot.

Culture
Fijian
Material
plant fibre
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fish Spear1448/12

Wooden fish spear with long handle that tapers towards the tip where two tufts of plant fibre have been attached. Tip is composed of several long, pointed sticks that emerge from the base of the handle and splay outwards towards the bottom of the instrument. They are attached at the base of the handle with braided plant fibre and held together with cord midway towards the pointed tips. There is a pointed stone at the centre.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood, stone and fibre
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure1448/22

Grey-black coloured human figure bent over at the waist. Figure is holding a branch. Both the figure and branch are attached to a rectangular-shaped base.

Culture
West African
Material
metal and paint
Made in
West Africa, Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure1448/25

Grey-black coloured human figure holding an object with three pointed wings(?) over the shoulder. Figure is in a standing position on a square-shaped base.

Culture
West African
Material
metal and paint
Made in
West Africa, Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fly Whisk1448/1

Long black coloured feathers gathered together at one end and secured to wooden handle with braided strand of fibre cording. Fibre is woven in and out of feathers at the base, is bound several times around the handle, and is secured with a knot. Braided fibre strand hangs down.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood, fibre and feather
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bowl1461/1

Bowl made of a coconut shell with opening around 3/4 of the way from bottom. Twined string loop through two holes on either side of the rim and is knotted at the centre; outer surface is decorated on either side of each set of holes with four horizontal short lines.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
coconut nutshell and coconut husk fibre
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fan1461/9

A light brown woven fan with a triangular shape and an embedded handle. There are two sets of coloured rows which curve along the sides from the bottom which cross at the top. The outer rows are purple and green. The inner rows are green, purple, and green. The handle has six alternating square rows of green in the middle.

Culture
Eastern Melanesian ?
Material
fibre and paint
Made in
Pacific Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fan1461/10

A light brown flat woven fan. The fan comes to a point at the top and angles down to a point at each side where it tapers down at an angle to the embedded handle.

Culture
Eastern Melanesian ?
Material
fibre
Made in
Pacific Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ornament1461/8

An ornament with the central piece being two curved tusks connected together to create a horizontal oval-shape with fibre in between the middle of them. Attached around the tusks, there is a looped beaded band with two rows of white beads outlining the central pattern of alternating rectangles of blue, green, and red. From the tusks, there dangles five strings (two at the top next to the looped beaded band and three at the bottom) of blue, green, white, and black beads with a black seed bead at the end.

Culture
Motu
Material
glass, fibre, seed and tusk
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Lime Container1461/2 a-b

A complete coconut nutshell with a wooden stopper on top and two holes through which goes a fibre string handle that has a metal nail pinned through it. The design consists of dotted cirles in a row on a horizontal white band in the middle of the coconut nutshell from which five equally spaced vertical bands with a zig zag pattern go up to a horizontal line near the top. The wood stopper has a row in the middle inlaid with side-by-side x-shapes of mother of pearl shell.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
coconut nutshell, wood, mother of pearl shell and fibre
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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