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ArrowC1064

A plain cane shaft and long wood point are stained but undecorated. The base of the point is wrapped with string tied in a series of half hitches and coiled with stem (?).

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood, stem ? and fibre
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowC1065

An arrow that has four hardwood prongs set into a reed shaft and tied with string. Each prong has a point with two sets of three pairs of barbs. The end is notched.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
plant fibre, wood and reed grass
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowC1066

A plain cane shaft is stained dark but undecorated. The base of the point is wrapped with string tied in a series of half hitches. The point is elaborately carved in geometric pattern consisting of dots and diamond shapes, and the tip of the point is bound with a bone barb.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
fibre, bone, wood and stem ?
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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WhiskC22

A dark brown cylindrical handle, thinner in between the flared outward ends. One end has a tassel with braided bases of numerous strands of vegetable fibres forming the whisk.

Culture
Samoan
Material
plant fibre and wood
Made in
Upolu, Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BeaterC23

Wood squaree beater pounder tapers to become a round handle which flares outward slightly at the end. Three sides of the beater have reeded grooves, with the other side being flat. Used for pounding off bark cloth from the mulberry tree until it is wider to create the tapa.

Culture
Samoan
Material
wood
Made in
Upolu, Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ContainerC24

Dark brown fibre is braided to form a net sling holder for the brown shell. The shell is rounded, has three equally spaced vertical ridges, and comes to a point at the end where the netting is open. The netting has an open lattice-work pattern and comes up around the rounded part of the shell extending into long braided strips which are knotted and braided together at the end.

Culture
Samoan
Material
fibre and coconut nutshell
Made in
Savai'i, Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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PouchC104

A rich red-brown seed pouch attached to a belt by loops of similar strung seeds.

Culture
Hawaiian
Material
seed
Made in
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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CombC105

A handle which tapers to a straight edge. The main design along the handle is woven with lozenges and chevrons. Sixteen long teeth fan outward radially. The teeth are secured by a twisted band of fibre string between each tooth.

Culture
Tongan
Material
grass, fibre and wood
Made in
Tonga
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HookC106

Wood is carved in a 'V' shape and a wooden barb carved separately is tied to one end of the 'V' with string. On the other end a string is tied and extends away from the hook ending in a knot.

Culture
Marshallese
Material
wood and fibre
Made in
Marshall Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BladeC107

A fairly smooth black stone with a long thin shape that is fairly triangular in cross section. One side is consistently flat, except for a slight horizontal bump. Two other sides are fairly rounded side-by-side mirror images of each other with a slightly tapered flat triangular section at an angle in between them to one end, creating a straight edge.

Culture
Eastern Polynesian
Material
stone
Made in
“Pitcairn Island” ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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