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Snuff Bottle1072/1

Reddish gourd with band of metal decoration at centre and metal lid and neck at narrow end. The lid is attached by a chain to the central band.

Culture
Turkmen
Material
gourd fruit and silver metal
Made in
Turkmenistan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mask1001/1

A long oval-faced wood mask with a tall six-stick headdress connected horizontally in the middle. The nose is long, thin, and deep with strands of red thread wrapped around its nostrils. The square eyes and mouth are cut out. The forehead is upraised and angled to a point in the middle. Double chin. Entire mask is decorated with cowrie shells and red seeds.

Culture
Bamana
Material
wood, cowrie shell, seed and fibre
Made in
Mali
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Pot1101/3

A metal pot with an upturned rim. The design consists of a diamond-shaped mesh pattern in the middle with horizontal rows and then vertical rows with circles throughout emanating from the middle pattern.

Culture
Indian: Northern Indian and Indian: Central Indian
Material
metal
Made in
India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Pot1101/1

A metal pot with an upturned rim. The design consists of a diamond-shaped pattern going around the middle surrounded above and below with horizontal lines and vertical line on the bottom.

Culture
Indian: Northern Indian and Indian: Central Indian
Material
metal
Made in
India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile1046/4

Rectangular, multi-coloured silk ikat bed cover or wall hanging, backed with machine printed, floral cotton textile. On the ikat side are 25 narrow vertical stripes of seven-colour warp-face ikat designs, separated by narrower, unpatterned green, yellow, or red-purple stripes. The weft is bright pink, giving the piece an over-all rosy appearance. The machine printed cotton backing textile is predominantly red, with brown, tan and white details, and the piece is bound on all four edges with bias cut green silk textile. Several lengths of ikat textile were pieced together to achieve the desired width.

Culture
Uzbek
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre and dye
Made in
Uzbekistan ? or Afghanistan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile1046/3

Rectangular, multi-coloured silk ikat bed cover or wall hanging, backed with red, white and gray-blue machine printed cotton textile. The patterns on the ikat side are large and boldly colourful and are composed of six-colour warp-face ikat designs on three narrow vertical panels that have been stitched together to achieve the desired width. The silk weft is bright pink, giving the piece an overall rosy appearance. The cotton backing textile is loosely attached to the ikat silk with running stitches made with red thread. All edges are bound with green silk bias binding.

Culture
Uzbek
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre and dye
Made in
Uzbekistan ? or Afghanistan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile1046/2

Rectangular, multi-coloured silk ikat bed cover or wall hanging, constructed of three lengths of bright pink, white, blue-green and yellow warp-face ikat silk satin textile, seamed together vertically, and loosely quilted onto a backing of machine-printed cotton textile. The backing textile is pieced from two floral prints, one with orange and brown predominating, the other with red, yellow and brown predominating. The object is bound on all four edges with bright yellow-green silk dupioni textile, which forms a narrow edging on the front and a wider border on the back. Possibly used as a bed cover for a bride and groom.

Culture
Uzbek
Material
silk fibre, cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Uzbekistan ? or Afghanistan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cloth1001/3

Square textured raffia cloth woven in dark yellow and cream diamond pattern with heavy parallel brown and light brown lines between.

Culture
Kuba
Material
palm leaf fibre and dye
Made in
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bag916/2

Flat, rectangular, decorative bag, made from two different types of textile. The front of the bag is made from very finely embroidered, multi-coloured textile with patterns that resemble an ikat weaving. The back of the bag is made from a cotton warp face ikat textile with large red and yellow patterning on an off-white background. All four edges of the front of the bag are finished with narrow multi-coloured tablet-woven braids. The sides and bottom edge of the bag are trimmed with dense, long (11 cm), multi-coloured, twisted fringe (red, dark yellow, purple, off-white, brown, green and blue). The opening of the bag is trimmed with four multi-coloured tassels. The front of the bag is lined with a loosely woven, printed, tan cotton textile.

Culture
Turkmen ? or Uzbek ?
Material
silk fibre ?, cotton fibre, dye and rayon fibre ?
Made in
Afghanistan ? or Uzbekistan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bag916/1

Small, embroidered, red envelope style bag, made by folding and stitching three corners of a multi-coloured embroidered square together, leaving the fourth corner open as a flap. The central design motif is a hooked sun disc (circular medallion surrounded by numerous spiral ‘arms’) set within a square, which is surrounded by a row of mirrors and geometric border designs. The majority of the embroidered motifs are worked in fine chain stitch. All edges are finished with a heavy black cord that is couched in place with gold metallic thread. A narrow black cord is attached at the point of the flap. The bag is lined with tan and green machine printed cotton textile with a small floral pattern.

Culture
Pashtun ?
Material
cotton fibre, dye, glass, alloy metal and silk fibre
Made in
Ghazni, Afghanistan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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