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RattleA6098

Brown wood rattle consisting of two rounded pieces put together, each with a semi-cylindrical handle, creating a full rounded rectangular rattle nailed together. Design consisting of a human face that has black circle in circle eyes outlined by a black tapering oval and surrounded with a green area and black brows above with a green forehead, a green nose with red nostrils, and an open red mouth showing twelve plain teeth. Black dashes go around the bottom of the mouth while red, green, and black sideways u forms go around the top of the mouth. Back of the head is black. Cedar bark is used on top to indicate hair.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, cedar bark, paint and metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleA6097

Yellow-brown wood rattle consisting of two rounded pieces put together, each with a semi-cylindrical handle, creating a full rounded square rattle nailed together. Design consisting of a human face that has black circle in circle eyes outlined by a carved tapering oval and surrounded with a green area and two semi-oval black areas on top of the head, a black dot with red detailing for the nose, and an open red mouth showing twelve plain teeth with a curving green line along the cheeks. Face is surrounded by a red halo-like projection feature with radiating red spikes around the head. There were originally nine spikes, there are only five left intact.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
cedar wood, paint and metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleA6100

Light 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 wire. Pieces are also bound together at the top with wire. Handle is bound with brown string. Designs consisting of a face, possibly a bear and a whale? One face has black ovoid in ovoid eyes with an inverted black u form above with a plain oval within at either top side and a horizontal, red oval mouth with extending upper side lines. The other face has black outlined thin ovoid eyes with red nostrils and a black outlined open red mouth showing twelve plain teeth. Above this face, there is an inverted black outlined u form that has two plain dots at either lower side with an inverted black split u above.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, paint, copper metal and cotton fibre
Made in
Blunden Harbour, British Columbia, Canada ? or Ba'as, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleA4027

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 with cedar bark. Handle is bound with brown string. Designs consisting of a large human face painted on both sides and carved with a projecting beak nose that is decorated with cedar bark bound with string. Both faces have circular black pupils outlined by a plain carved tapering oval surrounded by a dark blue area with black brows above and a pair of red and dark blue split u forms above. The mouths are outlined by black with red lips with one face having a black goatee.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw ?
Material
fibre, cedar bark, wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleA3544

Brown wood rattle consisting of two rounded pieces put together, each with a semi-cylindrical handle, creating a full rounded rattle. Along either sides of each piece, there is a hole to bind the two pieces together with brown string. Pieces are also bound together at the top. Handle is bound with brown string. Designs consisting of a large human face painted on both sides. Both faces have black outlined L-shaped eyes that are consisting of an upper horizontal green oval (one face has plain black outlined pupils while the other face has an additional dot within) with dashes (one face has green dashes while the other face has red dashes) in the lower section, thick black brows with a black and red design above, a black nose consisting of two circles connected by an inverted u-line, a red mouth outlined by black, a curving red line along the cheeks, and an inward pointing sideways red w-shape at either side. A thin red downward pointing line is below the black brows on one face while a red line extends from the curving red line along the cheeks up along the nose and around the top of the black brows down to the inward pointing sideways red w-shape at either side.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, fibre 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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HornA3615

A hollow, brown trumpet-like horn, sometimes called a whistle. Circular in cross-section with a tapering section that flares outward to the larger end. Bound with bark near the middle. (No additional air vent.)

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood and bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HornA6203

A hollow, bottle-shaped, brown wood whistle/horn that is circular in cross section with a neck tapering to a flat, beak-like mouthpiece. Bound with white string around near the middle.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood and fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleA4277

Rattle made of three pecten scallop shells, two small (one is cream-white while the other is purple-pink) and one large (beige-pink), hanging from a light brown wood hoop bound with beige cloth along the side from where the large shell is located.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
scallop shell, wood and fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BatonA6439

Drum baton or beater. Brown wood cylindrical baton that tapers downward to an outward flaring handle end. Carved with a Thunderbird design. Has ovoid in ovoid eyes with an upward and outward curling horn-like protrusion at the top of either side. The downward pointing beak has a circle in the middle. At the top of the wings, there is an ovoid while both the inner and the outer feathers have a u form within a larger u form that has a horizontal rectangle within (the inner wing has a straight end while the outer wing has a pointed tip. The claws, below the wings, have an ovoid from which an inward curving tip emanates with a curving shape to the outer side.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood
Made in
Blunden Harbour, British Columbia, Canada ? or Ba'as, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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