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ContainerCa66 a-b

Large round-body, part (a), is light coloured wood with two small protruding handles pierced, with leather handle strap going through them and attaching to wider leather strap. Extra piece of leather connected to side of leather strap. Mouth of container is wrapped and woven with grasses. Lid, part (b) is bulbous with round and smaller flat top, does not fit well on container. Inside container is charred black.

Culture
Borana
Material
leather skin, grass and wood
Made in
Somalia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ContainerCa68 a-b

Container narrowing at top and bottom. The base (a) is concave and the mouth rim is tightly wrapped. The container is coiled in ten vertical sections. Cowrie shells are knotted on at the shoulder. The lid (b) also has cowrie shells knotted on just above the lip.

Culture
Borana
Material
giraffe hair, grass, cowrie shell and resin ?
Made in
Kenya
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Pubic Apron705/50

Small, rectangular shaped beaded pubic apron with twisted fibre edging and ties along with beaded fringe on each side with circular metal discs attached at the ends. The design on the apron consists of small red, green, navy and blue beads in a geometric pattern of arrows, rectangles, diamonds and lines on a white background.

Culture
Kamba
Material
glass, fibre and metal
Made in
Kenya
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Pubic Apron705/51

Small, rectangular shaped beaded pubic apron with twisted fibre edging and ties along with a braided metal fringe. The design on the apron consists of small red, green, navy and blue beads in a geometric pattern of squares, arrows, rectangles and zigzags on a beaded white background.

Culture
Kamba
Material
glass, brass metal ? and fibre
Made in
Kenya
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile705/52

Square, cream, cotton textile detailed with purple, red, orange, yellow, green and pink geometric patterns. The central motif forms a square with small circular mirrors in the centre and around the outer edge. The border of the textile is black with a green, red, blue and white triangular, beaded fringe. At each point of the triangles is a thin, circular piece of metal. The corner sections have larger beads and small sections of purple fringe.

Culture
Indian: Northern Indian and Indian: Central Indian
Material
cotton fibre, dye, glass and metal
Made in
Gujarat, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sarong1552/1

The sarong is a purple-red cloth with yellow, pink and fuchsia detail. There are bands of pointed line of varying sizes, alternating fuchsia and pink. Along each edge there is a broken yellow line. The cloth is folded in half and the ends machine stitched together.

Culture
Cambodian
Material
silk fibre
Made in
Cambodia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ikat Textile1647/2

Rectangular woven ikat fabric; predominantly shiny, rich purple and crimson hues. All-over geometric patterning with diamond-shaped motifs in red, orange-yellow, and blue and a dark purple ground. Bands of red along the lengthwise edges. Four thick stripes alternating with three thin bands of patterning at either end.

Culture
Cambodian
Material
silk fibre and dye
Made in
Cambodia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile959/2

Large rectangular piece of thin, muslin-like, tie-dyed cotton. The outer border of the fabric has been dyed red, while the rectangular centre is a deep blue. Fabric has been folded in four and covered with elaborate geometric and scrolling patterns in white and yellow; patterns are comprised of small, yellow and white, square, outline-like shapes, with the centres showing the ground colour. Circular areas of red dye evenly spaced throughout the blue centre also feature designs with small white squares. Though the resist ties used to bind the fabric during dying to create the patterns have been largely pulled out, the material still has a strongly puckered appearance, obscuring the centres of the square shapes.

Culture
Indian: Northern Indian ? or Indian: Central Indian ?
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile959/3

Long, rectangular textile of thin, tie-dyed cotton. The outer border of the fabric has been dyed red, while the rectangular centre is a deep blue. Both the border and the centre panel are covered in geometric and curvilinear patterns in white and yellow; patterns are comprised of small, yellow and white, square, outline-like shapes, with the centres showing the ground colour. Circular areas of red dye evenly spaced throughout the blue centre also feature designs with small white squares.

Culture
North India ?
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Rajasthan, India ? or Gujarat, India ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headdress1498/2

A woman’s headdress consisting of a crown and a broad panel that hangs down along the back. It is shaped from a piece of coarsely woven dark brown and blue textile and is heavily decorated with cowrie shells, red and white glass beads, and embroidery. The crown portion is embellished with closely-spaced rows of cowrie shells and a central strip of geometric shapes formed from red and white glass beads. There is a large brown and orange pom pom at the centre back. The “tail” is decorated with scattered small buttons of various kinds and small silver diamond-shaped ornaments. A costume jewelry brooch (gold with red and blue stones) is pinned in the centre. There is a strip of embroidered geometric shapes at the end of the “tail", and the bottom edge is finished with a braided fringe formed from the warp threads of the textile.

Culture
Kalash
Material
wool fibre, goat hair fibre ?, cotton fibre, cowrie shell, glass, plastic and dye
Made in
Chitral, Northwest Frontier, Pakistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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