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Model Totem PoleA8060

Miniature totem pole depicting frog and a bear with sea lion. The green frog is at the base of the pole with the brown and black bear sitting on top. The sea lion is brown. There is a large hole at the top of the bear's head into which something can be placed. Painted red, black, and yellow on the natural brown wood. There are five nails in the back.

Culture
Coast Salish: Quwutsun'
Material
paint, wood and metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Owl FigureA8066

Carved wooden figure in the shape of an owl with wings spread. The head of the owl has backwards pointing, triangular-shaped ears and two large circular eyes with smaller engraved circles inside of them. Owl has a rounded body and two legs with three claws at end of each foot. Wing feathers are delineated. The object is painted with a dark stain.

Culture
Coast Salish: Quwutsun'
Material
wood and stain
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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PurseA3432 a-b

Woven purse (part a) that has wrapped twined weaving with a border of plain twined weaving at the top. Both sides have a design that consists of two whales facing each other (in blue with several colours) and a purple eagle with an arrow in its claws while its wings are outspread. Colours include magenta, orange, yellow, and green. Has a zipper. There is also a double-sided rectangular mirror (part b).

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
swamp grass, metal, glass, aniline dye and synthetic fibre
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaulA3435

Maul made from a large piece of stone lashed to a slender wooden handle. Cylindrically-shaped section of rough stone - flat on either end with a large circumferal groove around the middle to secure the hafting lashing. Flattened on one side to sit firmly on hafting. Lashed to carved wood hafting platform with hide strips from which a curving branch provides a handle. Shallow circumferal groove near handle butt.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
stone, wood and skin
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureA3437

Brown wood figure carved in the shape of a sea otter. Has circular eyes, split u ears, a nose, and a mouth. The four digit paws rest on the belly and have a split u at the wrists. Twisted cedar bark looped about the tail.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
wood and cedar bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Halibut HookA3438

Hook composed of two carved wooden arms lashed together with cord in a "v"-shape. An iron spike is lashed with root at an acute angle to main arm. The shank is carved to represent a creature with a head and open jaws toward the joint of the two arms, and a narrow bone is depicted with two parallel appendages protruding behind. A leader line is secured through a hole drilled through the shank.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
fibre, iron metal, wood and root
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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LadleA3482

Dark brown wooden ladle with a handle in the form of a bird's head. Deep bowl with a round bottom.

Culture
Gitxsan
Material
wood and stain ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ScraperA3492

Rectangular length of bone with a blunt piece of translucent brown mineral set in one end.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
chalcedony mineral and bone
Made in
British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fragment: MaulA7332

Oval, bell-shaped, dark brown-grey stone with small knob on top.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
sandstone stone
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketA4107

Rectangular-shaped basket that tapers at the bottom. Wrapped twined openwork weave with single coil border at top. Fibre cording rope attached to one side.

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