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Ancestor Figure3308/3

Glazed ceramic ancestor figure. Figure has a conical body with two holes where arms should be. Each arm hole has stamped triangles encircling it. The figure's head is shield-like and convex and attached at the tapered point of the body. The face is decorated with stamped facial features and a built up long rectangular nose. Tied to the head is a headdress made of woven white and red fishing net, with a single white and brown feather extending from the top. The figure wears a skirt with a fringe, knotted at the waistband. The skirt alternates between natural yellow-brown fibres, red fibres, and white net fibres. Around the waist and neck are two ceramic ornaments strung on twisted fibres. Within the body hang three light yellow glass skulls that are visible through the armholes. The artist's initials are carved into the figure's neck, and behind both the chest and waist ornaments - 'JKT'.

Culture
Torres Strait Islander
Material
clay, glaze, plant fibre, synthetic fibre, feather and glass ?
Made in
“Torres Strait Islands: Erub Island” ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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T-shirt3308/2

Synthetic collared T-shirt with printed design. Front depicts an ocean view with ghost net art of a sea turtle and hammerhead shark layered overtop. The sides and sleeves have designs in black, white and bright green, yellow and blue. The back has images of ghost net sea turtle art on the left shoulder layered over an image of ghost nets under water. An image of ceramic figures across the lower back. The back of the collar reads 'Erub Arts', back of shirt 'Celebrating 10th Anniversary of Corporation 2018' and 'Erub Erwer Meta Corporation' across the hem.

Culture
Torres Strait Islander
Material
dye and polyester fibre
Made in
“Torres Strait Islands: Erub Island” ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Jellyfish Sculpture3308/1

Jellyfish figure made from reclaimed plastic fishing nets ("ghost nets"), plastic twine and rope. Woven white hood, and white tentacles, some loose and some braided, decorated with looped strands of orange or brown plastic. A matted section of plastic extends down from the centre, with the long tentacles around it. There is one coiled, disc-shaped decoration in the tentacles, white wrapped with thin brown strands.

Culture
Torres Strait Islander
Material
plastic
Made in
“Torres Strait Islands: Erub Island” ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sepa3285/2

Jellyfish figure made from reclaimed plastic fishing nets ("ghost nets"), plastic twine and rope. Woven white with yellow hood, and white tentacles with yellow and black loosely looped tentacles.

Culture
Torres Strait Islander
Material
plastic
Made in
“Torres Strait Islands: Erub Island” ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Rosey3285/1

Jellyfish figure made from reclaimed plastic fishing nets ("ghost nets"), plastic twine and rope. White with orange and red hood; white and red tentacles.

Culture
Torres Strait Islander
Material
plastic
Made in
“Torres Strait Islands: Erub Island” ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dama3285/4

Jellyfish figure made from reclaimed plastic fishing nets ("ghost nets"), plastic twine and rope. Woven white hood with a ring of red and a ring of green, and braided white tentacles decorated with small orange circles.

Culture
Torres Strait Islander
Material
plastic
Made in
“Torres Strait Islands: Erub Island” ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Paula3285/3

Jellyfish figure made from reclaimed plastic fishing nets ("ghost nets"), plastic twine and rope. Woven white hood with lines of red, black and green, and white tentacles, some of which are coiled in blue, red, green, orange or black.

Culture
Torres Strait Islander
Material
plastic
Made in
“Torres Strait Islands: Erub Island” ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shark Sculpture3286/1

Large hammerhead shark figure made from reclaimed plastic fishing nets ("ghost nets"), plastic twine and rope. Figure has a partial metal frame inside.

Culture
Torres Strait Islander
Material
metal, steel metal and plastic
Made in
“Torres Strait Islands: Erub Island” ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headdress3541/2

Ghost net dari (or dhari) headdress. Headpiece is shaped like an inverted-U, with a horizontal line through the middle. Five lines extend from the top of the centre line. Middle one is straight and connects with the top edge; other four form inverted-U shapes and reconnect with the centre line. Two additional curved lines protrude from the middle line, connecting with the main body of the headpiece. Curved and inverted-U shaped lines are all dark blue; straight lines and headpiece are done in olive green, dark blue and green. Headpiece has an outer green border and it is connected to the headpiece with black zigzags. White feather-like protrusions extend from outer edges of green border; protrusions in bottom corners are longer than rest and undecorated. Rest of protrusions have had their ends cut; long diagonal lines extend from tips. All protrusions are secured with wire, wrapped in green. Orange circle is tied to top centre of headpiece with three feather-like shapes extending from it. Long black "feather" in the middle, framed by smaller white and black ones, is topped with tufts of white plastic.

Culture
Torres Strait Islander
Material
metal and plastic
Made in
“Torres Strait Islands: Erub Island” ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headdress3541/1

Dari (or dhari) feather headdress. Headpiece is shaped like an inverted-U, with a horizontal line through the middle. Three lines extend from the top of the centre line, connecting with the top edge; outer lines are curved, middle line is straight. All pieces are made of cane, wrapped in orange fibre. Headpiece has an outer border of plastic; connected to headpiece with black cane, shaped into a zigzag. White feathers protrude from outer edges of plastic, secured with black fibre; feathers in bottom corners are longer than rest and undecorated. Rest of white feathers have had their ends cut; each has three small triangles on either side and long diagonal lines at the tip. Large red seed is tied to the top centre of the headpiece and has three feathers extending from it. Long grey feather in the middle, framed by smaller white and black ones, is topped with a tuft of white feathers; secured to grey feather with white fibre.

Culture
Torres Strait Islander
Material
cane grass, goose feather, seed, plastic, fibre and dye
Made in
“Torres Strait Islands: Erub Island” ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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