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Dish3090/2

Large stoneware dish. Dish is round, with an everted rim and thick base with foot. The well is painted with an image in blue of a woman holding a chicken. The two look each other in the eye. Surrounding the image are overlapping feather shapes in three encircling rows on the rim. Lip is painted a dark grey. Exterior is undecorated. Signature on bottom of plate.

Culture
Canadian
Material
clay, paint and glaze
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dish3090/1

Large stoneware dish. Dish is round, with a high everted rim and thick base with foot. The well is painted with a blue line drawing of a man and woman standing naked in a wooden bathtub filled with water. Colours are subdued, the water a light blue-green and the wood and hair shaded with yellow. Image is surrounded by encircling lines in dark grey and blue along edge of well and rim, as well as on the exterior. Signature on bottom of plate.

Culture
Canadian
Material
clay, paint and glaze
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bowl3071/2

Large low-fired, unglazed and unpainted piki bowl. Mouth is wide, with sides gently curving in toward the small, round base. The terracotta bowl is covered inside and out in a light orange slip.

Culture
Hopi
Material
clay
Made in
Arizona, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bowl3071/1

Large low-fired, non-glazed bowl, possibly a bread bowl or serving dish. Mouth is wide, with sides gently curving in toward the small, slightly rounded base. The upper half of the bowl is painted with a repeating feather motif in orange and brown on a white background. The lower half and interior of the bowl are dark orange, stone polished to a shine.

Culture
Pueblo: Zia
Material
clay and paint
Made in
New Mexico, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure3055/16

Wooden ikenga figure. The figure sits on a rounded base with two small carved triangular wedges on either side of the body. The figure’s body is a rectangular shape with stylized, squared arms branching out from the base of the head in v-shapes to attach to the base. There are two small square sections of raised wood either side where the body meets the head. The head is elliptical in shape, narrow and flattened. The face of the figure extends over the front arm and has slanting eyes carved on the sides of the head, rounded lips and nose, and a sloping, high forehead. The back of the head extends outwards over the back arm and is decorated with a spiral design. The top of the head is adorned with four connected cylindrically carved shapes with incised cross-hatching on the ends, and two large curved horns. The horns are curved at the top and have a hollow interior, while the bottom horns curve outwards from the body and are narrower and solid.

Culture
Igbo
Material
wood
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure3055/15

Wooden ikenga figure. The figure has a conical base with a cylindrical torso. The torso/body is decorated with incised zigzag lines and raised sections of wood with grooves around the edges of the midsection. The figure’s neck is long and wrapped at the base with a thin, degraded strip of woven fabric which is knotted at the back of the neck. The figure’s head is rounded in the back but with a triangularly shaped face including a pointy, beaked nose and sharply pointed small chin and lips. The eyes are stylized slits on the edges of the face, and attached to the sides of the head are two large, curved horns. The horns are v-shaped and point backwards away from the face. There is a large crack in the figure extending from the neck to the base on the left side.

Culture
Igbo
Material
wood and plant fibre
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure3055/13

Carved, wooden ikenga figure. The figure has two conical-shaped, short legs that attach to a body consisting of two conically carved shapes without points (frustums) which taper inwards to join a central, larger cylinder. The two outer sections are incised with linear grooves, while the central section is carved with two triangular and two rectangular shapes in-filled with small, carved divots. The figure’s neck is long and rounded. The figure’s face is long with a pointed, flat-bottomed chin, small mouth, large flat nose and large, deeply carved eyes. The high forehead is slopping and angular. Extending directly upwards from the back of the head are two pointed, large horns running parallel to each other.

Culture
Igbo
Material
wood
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure3055/12

Wooden ikenga figure. The figure stands on a circular base, from which rises the central rectangular post that supports the head of the figure, surrounded on four sides by bent v-shaped, rectangular posts. The head is very large and flat with an angular face. The face consists of a square chin with a wide, open mouth. Above the mouth the face slopes up and back and is decorated with incised square shapes. The top of the face is adorned with two carved circular protrusions, one in the centre of the face and one on the right side of the face with a space for the missing third on the left side of the face. There is also a circular protrusion on the top of the head in the back. The two side protrusions are part of the two large, curved horns (right side is broken) that extend outwards from the top of the face. The upper sections of the horns are wide and carved to be hollow in the interiors, while the lower sections are narrower and solid. The upper sections of the horns attach to a rounded, flat piece that sits on top of the central bulge of the face.

Culture
Igbo
Material
wood
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Her First Day of School3043/1

Large photographic print. A young girl stands in the centre of the photo. Her smiling face and lower legs are in colour, while her torso and upper legs are surrounded by a rectangular black & white, X-ray type image overlaying the colour picture. Inside the rectangle she is wearing a neat white buttoned jacket that reaches to her knees, hands clasped together in front. Seen in the background of the piece behind the little girl’s head is a window showing the exterior slats of a building. On the sides of the photo print are images of cellulose film notches.

Culture
Coast Salish: Shishalh
Made in
Sechelt, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Rattle3041/6

Rattle made of six cones of tin attached to a wooden handle. The cones consist of different sizes, three wide and long, and three shorter and smaller in diameter. All are crimped at the handle, where they fit into a metal ring that joins them to the handle. Each cone widens toward the base. The larger three contain a wire hung with a metal nut as a clapper. The cones are decorated with circle and line motifs pressed into the tin. The wooden handle has an engraved line that spirals from end to end.

Culture
Brazilian
Material
tin metal, wood and paint ?
Made in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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