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Container1188/50 a

Round-bottomed container with a flared neck. Decoration is of geometric patterns in bands around shoulder that are raised or incised into the surface.

Culture
Fijian
Material
clay
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sago Storage PotIe502 a-b

Pot made of clay with a face just below the flared rim and a grass ring (part b) that fits around the base of the pot. The face has raised circular eyes, a ridge around the eyes, and a recurved nose. A series of bean-like shapes in white, black and yellow surround the face with a brown background, a raised black wavy line border, and a series of emanating fin-like shapes in black and white outside the raised line.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
clay, paint and grass
Made in
Aibom, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskIe468 a-e

Part (a) is a long tear drop shaped plywood with three dimensional carved wood head attached centre front. Face has eyes outlined in red seeds, hook nose with open nostrils and long feather and fibre rope through wide indented mouth. Back board and head painted with geometric designs in brown, gold, white and black. White feathers double fringe attach to perimeter with twisted fibre band. Secondary face on board has wide smiling mouth. Attached black and white feather, red seed medallion top piece, back has support material of hat and ridge in wood. Four flat wood leaf shapes (b-e) with black and white zigzag markings, cut white feather surrounds them, attached at an angle to a stick bound with fibre and white feather down.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood, paint, fibre, shell, feather and skin
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa Cloth1188/52

The cloth is rectangular and white-natural coloured with designs covering the entire surface stenciled in black and brown. There is a border along the edges of a white crest shape with black horizontal lines on a black background. Inside the borders are many repeated blocks of design. One block is square with many black and white linear borders leading to the centre with a white flower on a brown background. Another block has black triangles in each of the four corners and a brown pinwheel in the centre surrounded by black dots on a lightly painted brown background. Another block is rectangular with many black and white linear borders leading to the centre with a white flower with square petals on a black background. The centre block is rectangular with many black and white borders leading to two squares in the centre with triangles of brown, black and white. The cloth is made up of a wide and narrow piece attached together.

Culture
Fijian
Material
mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa Cloth1188/68

The cloth is square and natural coloured with designs painted in brown and black. There are twelve square blocks, three rows of four, with a circular design in the natural colour and brown. In each square the design shows four ovals pointing into the centre surrounded by a broken circle of triangles and framed by lines in each of the four corners. The same design differs from panel to panel in which aspects of the design are highlighted with black and dark brown paint. The cloth is made from three pieces attached together.

Culture
Samoan
Material
paper mulberry bark, pigment and paint
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Band1188/46 c

Band with an oval shape composed of plant fibre with a triangle design in black and white formed by painted clay applied to the surface of the plant fibre and outlined with strips of wood secured to the plant fibre with thinner strips of wood. Plant fibre ties at ends.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
plant fibre, clay, wood and paint
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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StaffIj13

Tall wooden staff with a straight, cylindrical staff and elaborately carved zoomorphic figures at the top and bottom; very top of staff is carved with a humanoid figure.

Culture
Cook Islanders
Material
wood
Made in
Cook Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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PaddleIe471

Brown wood paddle that has a long cylindrical handle tapering to a rounded knob and then a point at the end. At either ends of the knob, there are five incised horizontal bands. Geometric shaped lines are carved on the handle near the paddle end. The blade has an elongated ovate shape.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeaddressIh221

Headdress that tapers to a spiked segment with a tuft of off-white and brown feathers at the top and has four faces around the base with two protruding, tapering and curved arms opposite each other just below the spiked segment. Tufts of plant fibre attached through holes along the bottom edge. Painted with white, black, orange-brown, and yellow details and geometric designs.

Culture
Ni-Vanuatu
Material
wood, clay, feather, paint, shell ? and plant fibre
Made in
Vanuatu
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeaddressIh225

Headdress on four posts with overall conical shape, a spiked rim and four evenly spaced bands of spikes made with leaves running up the bottom tier, four arms with double sarrated edges at the top of the bottom tear each protruding out at an angle with dangling elongated shapes at the tips, and the tip is ornamented with fibre that splays outwards just below a guft of short brown and white feathers and two long, curved black feathers. The posts are covered with fibres attached around each post just below the rim of the headdress. The headdress is clay painted with off-white, reddish-brown and black geometric designs.

Culture
Ni-Vanuatu
Material
wood, fibre, clay, paint and leaf
Made in
Vanuatu
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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