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PouchIe411

Brown conical bag of woven string with a strap of the same material; several red threads are used in the bag near the rim. A jumble of thirty-seven sea shells, many fragmentary, are pierced and attached to the bag, either encircling the strap or attached to the rim by string.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
fibre, shell and dye
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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OrnamentIe410

An ornament of three woven strips hanging from a wood crosspiece. Pendants at the bottom of the strips and a strap at the top are also woven while the two prongs above the wood rod are rattan. All borders are edged with small cowrie shells and two larger white cowrie shells tip the rod ends. The material is dyed purple and green on the front. The back is a natural brown.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
dye, rattan, fibre, wood, cowrie shell and hemp fibre ?
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeaddressIe409

Rigid semicircular necklace made from an extended row of teeth protruding from a thick band of rattan. Fifty-two pig's teeth are woven into a semi-circle of a double layer of rattan. Fine string winds around the teeth to keep them in place and is tied to a thicker string which crosses the open back of the semi-circle.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
rattan, pig tooth and fibre
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeadbandIe408

A band of brown string wound over wood, tapering to two arms with loops, one fitted through the other. The top feathers are red, green, yellow, white, blue, and grey and decorate the wide part. Cowrie shells line the lower edge. Below, on strings, there are hanging two lines of small cowries, two single cowrie shells and two fragments of other shells.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood, parrot feather, clam shell ?, cowrie shell and nettle fibre
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Arm OrnamentIe407

An ornament of four white and brown boar's tusks pierced at both ends with a brown fibre strap tied on.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
fibre and boar tusk
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArmbandIe406

A woven band of rattan with two fibre flaps at the front top, and two below. Small cowrie shells edge the front and form arches around a wide stripe of shells in the middle. The woven spaces in between are coloured brown and red-brown. The back is undecorated. The ring-shaped armband is somewhat flattened.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
pigment, fibre, rattan and cowrie shell
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceIe405

A wide flat bamboo strip, brown on the exterior while light brown on the cut side, is kept in a u-shape by a brown fibre string running from near one end to the other end. Curving inward from each tip, there is a white and brown boar's tusk bound to the wood with light brown fibre.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
pigment, fibre, boar tusk and bamboo grass
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TextileEdz1327

Grey-white cloth with dark blue embroidery. Medallion has square at centre with peach blossom inside. Four lions surround square, their bodies covered with flower diaper pattern. Lions alternate with sprig and four peach blossoms. Triangular design in each corner has swastika, shou and meander bow pattern; diagonally opposing corners are identical. Selvage and raw ends.

Culture
Chinese
Material
indigo dye and cotton fibre
Made in
Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TextileEdz1326

Plain white cloth with black embroidery of large center medallion with four lotus designs surrounding central square of intertwined leaves and twigs. Four triangular corner motifs each containing stylized floral designs. Two selvage and two raw edges.

Culture
Chinese
Material
indigo dye and cotton fibre
Made in
Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureEf242

A seated anthro-zoomorphic figure that has a head of an elephant and a body of a man with four arms, representing the deity Ganesh. There are incised and intricate painted details on the headdress, the face, and the robe. Each hand holds small object. A rat is at the foot of the figure, next to the throne-like chair. The base is an oval shaped pedestal of red-brown clay. The rest of the figure is a natural tan finish with painted lines of white, red, and brown.

Culture
Bengali
Material
paint and clay
Made in
Nadia, West Bengal, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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