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Model Totem PoleA8067

A model totem pole depicting a bear with a human head and an eagle (from bottom to top). The bear at the bottom has black circle in tapering oval eyes surrounded bya a white area, red nostrils, an open red mouth showing twenty-two white teeth, and a black chin and body with a white chest that has a vertically bisymmetrical red and black geometric design. In between, below the bear's feet, there is a face that has black eyes, a triangular black nose, and an open red mouth showing twelve black teeth along with a horizontal red band at either side. The bear is holding a human head that has a white face with black eyes, a green forehead, a green nose with red nostrils, an open mouth showing fourteen white teeth, and a black chin. The eagle on top has rounded, circular, black eyes in a rounded white oval with green brows above, a black forehead, and a green beak. The eagle's chest is white with a black and red face with scales below. The eagle has three-feathered red and black side wings. Nailed to a square base.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
wood, metal and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleA8046

Brown wood rattle consisting of two rounded pieces put together, each with a semi-cylindrical handle, creating a full rounded oval rattle. Along either sides of each piece, there is a hole to bind the two pieces together with cedar bark. Pieces are also bound together at the top. Handle is bound with brown cloth. Designs consisting of whale, bird, and bear motifs. One side has two inward facing profile bird heads, each with a black oval in oval eye with the head outlined by black and the beak outlined by red with black diagonal lines underneath. In between the beaks of the birds, there is a red split u with a pair of inverted red split us within black u forms above. The other side has a larger face on top of a smaller one. The larger face has black ovoid in ovoid eyes, a long horizontal oval nose, an open red mouth with twelve plain teeth with a red split u in between the eyes above the nose and an inverted red u form within a black one above that has diagonal red lines at either top side. The smaller face has circular black eyes outlined by a tapering red oval with an inverted tear-drop-shaped red nose, and a downward turned red mouth.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, fibre, cedar bark and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model Totem PoleA8063

A model totem pole depicting (bottom to top): a beaver holding an extended tongue, a figure with a staff, the head of a fish, and a bird on top. The beaver has circular black eyes surrounded by a tapering red oval outlined by green with black brows above, red ears, curling red nostrils, an open mouth showing two red and green upper front buck teeth and a red tongue sticking out that its forepaws are holding onto at either side, and a frontward and upward curving red cross hatched tail. The figure with the staff has circular black eyes surrounded by a tapering red oval outlined by green with black brows above, red and green ears, red nostrils, and an open mouth in which, there is the top of the red and green banded staff that the figure is also holding in between its legs and forepaws. The head of the fish has similar facial features to that of the figure below it, except that it has plain pointed ears, and red outlined green split u side fins. The bird has similar eyes and brows to that of the other creatures, but also has a small beak and a black dotted body with side wings. The bird is turning its head to its left side. Eight oval abalone shell pieces are inlaid on the nailed base.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
wood, abalone shell, paint and metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureA8131

Carved eagle perched on a flat rectangular platform. The black eyes are surrounded by a dark green area with a red lined beak. The top of the head is painted black. The wings are kept close to the sides of its body and each has a central black oval outlined with red from which two feather sections come down painted red and dark green at the front while only painted red at the back oultined with black. The chest is painted with short dark green and black vertical lines in multiple rows.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Trade BeadsD2.68

Multi-coloured strands of beads joined at intervals by larger, painted, spherical beads.

Culture
Plains
Material
glass, clay, paint, fibre and metal
Made in
Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model Totem PoleA8122

A model totem pole model depicting a beaver, a killer whale, and a bird (from bottom to top). The beaver's black eyes are surrounded by a dark green area and is painted with a red mouth and a black body. The killer whale's black eyes are surrounded by a dark green area, a red mouth, and a black body that has a green dorsal fin, and three red dots along either top side of its back. There are two black eyes surrounded by a dark green area in between the killer whale and the bird. The bird's black eyes are surrounded by a blue-green area with black brows above and a yellow beak. The wings, kept close to the body, each have two feather sections painted dark green and red outlined with black.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood and paint
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model AnchorA2.273 h

A small round semi-circle piece with a hole at the top middle. The wood rim has sinew coiled around it. Long thin band of skin is attached.

Culture
Inuit
Material
wood, seal skin and sinew
Made in
Moose Factory, Ontario, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MoccasinsD2.13 a-b

A pair of skin moccasins with a floral design in beads sewn on to black felt on tongue. Floral beadwork design consists of one large red flower in two shades having a two-shaded yellow centre and one small pink and red flower with 'greenery' in two shades of blue and three shades of green. Quillwork colours include mauve, red, orange, and blue.

Culture
Plains
Material
skin, glass, porcupine quill and wool fibre ?
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ToolA2.392

Metal spokeshave with a short handle made from a yellow-white sperm whale tooth. Blade curves downwards from the handle into a flat middle section with a beveled edge, then curves back upwards, ending in a rounded notch with a circular hole through its centre (missing handle?).

Culture
Inuit
Material
iron metal and sperm whale tooth
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketD3.7 a-b

Brown birch bark basket (part a) tapering from a rectangular bottom to an oval-shaped top. Bark is bent and laced into place, with a twig around the rim overcast with red dyed spruce root. A flat, fitted lid (part b) features a looped handle in its centre set atop two layers of oval birch bark panels with decorative, zigzagging borders. Both the basket and the lid have decorative cross-shaped stitches in dyed red and green spruce root on them at well-spaced intervals.

Culture
Arctic America ?
Material
birch bark, spruce root, dye and fibre
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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