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Model Paddle3000/18

Small wooden paddle. Paddle has a long, flat, tapered blade painted with a form-line eye and surrounding colour blocks in black on both sides. Shaft is long, round, and narrow, flaring and flattening toward the grip, which is a thick carved cylinder of wood.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Paddle3000/17

Wooden canoe paddle. Paddle has a long, flat, tapered blade painted with a form-line bird’s head including eye, and surrounding colour blocks in black on both sides. Blade has a long penetrating crack that has been repaired with adhesive. Shaft is long, rounded, and narrow, flaring and flattening toward the grip, which is a thick, carved cylinder of wood.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
wood, paint and adhesive
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Paddle3000/16

Wooden canoe paddle. Paddle has a long, flat, tapered blade painted with a form-line bird’s head including eye, and surrounding colour blocks in black on both sides. Shaft is long, round, and narrow, flaring and flattening toward the grip, which is a thick, carved cylinder of wood.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Carving3000/11

Figure carved from argillite stone. A frog sits at the front of the piece, head turned outward. It is thickly covered by shallowly incised, oblong spots. Behind the frog is a low, square platform, upon which sits upright an animal with an incised spotted back and unmarked front and limbs. The legs are bent and drawn up, toes pointing inward, arms resting against chest. The creature’s hands and head have broken off and are missing.

Culture
Haida ?
Material
argillite stone
Made in
Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Maul3000/10

Large hand maul with a wide, flared circular head, a long tapering handle, and small circular butt end. Made from one piece of dark green-grey stone.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
stone
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Maul3000/9

Hand maul with a flared circular head, a long tapering handle, and a smaller circular butt end. Made from one piece of dark green-grey stone.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
stone
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Inkstand3000/7

Inkstand is made of a low square of cut wood. Top back is flat, while front is curved concavely. The wood is painted dark brown. A round hole is bored through the centre back to hold a glass container (missing). A paper label is nailed to the front edge. Label reads: "This Inkstand is made from timber taken from the “S.S. GLAD TIDINGS”, First Methodist Mission Boat on the British Columbia Coast., 1884 - 1903".

Culture
Canadian
Material
wood, paper, metal and ink
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Inkwell3000/4

Round ceramic inkwell has a small circular base below a large plate decorated with encircling lines of gold and green paint, and a scalloped rim. At its concave centre is a round pedestal of concentric circles, flaring out at top where a metal and ceramic lid opens on a metal hinge, revealing a deep inkwell inside. Pedestal is also painted with lines of green and gold.

Culture
English ?
Material
clay, glaze, paint and metal
Made in
United Kingdom ? or England ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Travel Chest3000/1 a-c

Large rectangular trunk with a high convex lid, reinforced by perpendicular horizontal wooden slats (two on the body and five on the lid) with decorative metal slat-clamps at the corners. Base corner clamps include small metal wheels. Corner edges are reinforced with tin strips, with two thinner pieces decorating the front and a tin lip edging the lid. All are attached by rivets. Leather handles were once attached to short sides, with one now missing and the other damaged. Heavy paper lines the outer walls, and has decorative scored and painted ‘x’ and diamond shapes on the front of body and lid. Trunk is closed by two latches at front centre with a lock between, and a drawbolt to each side. At back are three metal hinges. Decorative metal corner bumps are attached at lid’s top corners with a small metal handle at front centre. Interior of trunk lined in grey paper. Part b is a piece of interior luggage that sits high in the trunk on wooden slats. It is divided into three compartments, all with top lifting lids. Made of wood, the piece is covered in grey paper on sides, while lids are decorated in adhesive paper in white and blue lines, borders in red, blue and yellow, and two images at centre of lids showing people, foliage, landscapes and decorative patterning. Attached to the interior lid of the trunk are similar lidded compartments decorated in the same motifs that nestle together with part b in a compact fit. Part c is a rectangular paper luggage tag.

Culture
English
Material
wood, paper, tin metal, metal, skin, cotton fibre and adhesive
Made in
Europe
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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