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Axe HeadIe320

A smooth, light green and dark green stone that has an oblong rectangular shape with both sides slightly curving convexly, although one is a bit flatter than the other and tapering at an angle, creating an edge at one end which is more flared than the other more rounded end.

Culture
Kewa
Material
stone
Made in
Koiari, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Axe HeadIe319

A large, smooth, green-black stone that has an oblong rectangular shape with both sides slightly curving convexly and tapering at an angle, creating an edge at one end which is more flared than the other more pointed smaller end.

Culture
Kewa
Material
stone
Made in
Koiari, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MoneyIe318

A piece of pearl shell that is crescent shaped and that has 8 cm. between the points where there is a hole bored. The convex side is pearly-yellow while the concave side is pearly-white. Irregularly coated and encrusted with red ochre. Attached to the holes, there is a band knitted of local fibre, 60 cm. long, and 5 cm. wide. To one end, there is attached a cord 5 cm. long. The other attachment has been broken and is affixed to the shell with nylon string. The band is coated with red ochre. To each end, there are affixed two cowrie shells. At the midpoint, there are three transverse ribs. Near these, there is affixed a clump of fur.

Culture
Kewa
Material
synthetic fibre, ochre pigment, skin, cowrie shell, fibre and shell
Made in
Iapi, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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OrnamentIe317

A bailer shell, white on the convex surface, with an irregular brown coating on the concave surface. Triangular shape with rounded corners and one corner notched. Five holes are bored near the two upper corners. Through two of these, there has been strung a double length of cheesecloth 61 cm. long. The cheesecloth is coloured with yellow clay.

Culture
Kewa
Material
clay, cotton fibre and bailer shell
Made in
Koiari, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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StoneIe316

A stone, almost perfectly spherical with one side brown while the other has a black end.

Culture
Kewa
Material
stone
Made in
Iapi, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowIe307

An arrow shaft, 88.5 cm. long, made of a variety of pitpit (sword grass). The shaft is light brown with black coating. Inserted into the tip of the shaft, held with a woven rattan sleeve 1 cm. wide, is a long point of black palm wood 27 cm. long, which appears to have had a thin point which was broken off. The point is incised with longitudinal wavy lines filled with short parallel lines and rubbed with red ochre and grey clay.

Culture
Kewa
Material
resin, clay, ochre pigment, palm wood, rattan and fibre
Made in
Iapi, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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DishIe302

A very flat brown wooden dish with an elongated oval shape that has one end pointed, and a smooth surface. The rounded end is thicker, and rougher, and is more bent so that it is higher. The convex side is incised with two parallel rows of dots 11 cm. from the pointed end of the bowl. Between the dots and the point, there is a simple incised pattern of parallel and perpendicular lines. A hole is bored through the near point, through which, there is a loop of bark.

Culture
Kewa
Material
bark, plant fibre and black palm wood
Made in
Koiari, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowIe306

An arrow shaft, 83 cm. long, made of a variety of pitpit (sword grass). The shaft is light brown with black coating. The fore-shaft is a flat length of black palm wood, 10.5 cm. long, bound to the shaft with a sleeve of woven rattan 1.5 cm. wide and to the point with a band of bark cord 11 cm. wide. The fore-shaft is also bound with a band of woven rattan less than 1 cm. wide. The bark cord band is coated with red ochre and has a rough stripe of grey clay on each side. The long point is of solid bone, 17 cm. long, also coated with a black substance.

Culture
Kewa
Material
fibre, rattan, ochre pigment, black palm wood, bark and bone
Made in
Iapi, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearIe301

Spear, nearly round in cross-section, straight unadorned shaft tapering slightly to point. Lanceolate point part of human arm bone is eighteen cm. long to the shaft and hollow for two-thirds of the length. Cut away to leave a flat projection which is bound to the shaft. Mounting covered by a sleeve of woven rattan six cm. wide. Point and sleeve are coloured with red ochre.

Culture
Kewa
Material
human bone, ochre pigment, rattan and palm wood
Made in
Iapi, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowIe305

An arrow shaft, 79 cm. long, made of a variety of pitpit (sword grass). Light brown near the fore-shaft, darkening to black at the end from a coating of a black substance. The fore-shaft of black palm wood, 24.5 cm. long between the point and the shaft, is incised with a pattern of elongated dots and wavy lines coated with red ochre. The fore-shaft is bound to the shaft with sleeve of woven rattan 2 cm. wide. The long point is of hollow bone with a broken tip, bound to the fore-shaft with a sleeve of woven rattan.

Culture
Kewa
Material
rattan, bone, fibre, ochre pigment and resin
Made in
Iapi, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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