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Skull RepresentationA2481

Ornament in the shape of a flattened skull, carved and painted on both sides. The eye holes pierce through the wood, and the mouth is carved in a zigzag tooth pattern. The mouth and chin are painted red, and the remainder of the skull is painted white. There is a hole bored through chin, and one through top of head through which is tied to attach some shreds of cedar bark. There are also a few shreds of cedar bark in the chin hole.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, paint, cotton fibre, cedar bark and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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CombA2470

Fourteen pointed teeth; deeply incised design on one side shows a hawk with the hind quarters of a frog below; on the other a human face with prominent ears, a wolf or bear cub below. Inlaid on both sides with small pieces of abalone.

Culture
Tlingit ?
Material
wood and abalone shell
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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CopperA2462

Copper with sides that flare outwards slightly from the base and a top edge that has a rounded peak at the centre. A T-shaped ridge separates the top section from the bottom section and divides the bottom section in half. The top section is slightly convex and has a face incised on the upper portion by scraping away parts of a coating of dark paint (?). The eyes are delineated by two raised bumps.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
copper metal and paint ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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CopperA2461

Copper with a raised t-shape on the lower rectangular half. A simple human face is incised through a coating of dark paint (?) on the upper portion, which is slightly convex and has flaring side edges as well as a rounded top edge. Diagonal lines are incised on the lower portion and a border around the whole copper has been added in the same manner.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
copper metal and paint ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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LadleK2.40 a-b

Pair of plain ladles (parts a and b) with rounded bowls and pointed tapered handles. Part a has white residue in the bowl of the ladle.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
wood
Made in
Nigeria ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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CombA2472

Six polished flat bone teeth inset in a thick wood handle which is roughly triangular in shape and tapers toward the butt end where it terminates in a knob with a large v-shaped notch cut out that is also drilled with a hole. Deep depressions on the sides of the handle are decorated with incised diagonal crosses.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
cedar wood and bone
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FrontletA2463

Roughly circular in shape with small human head projecting from top above a face with wide mouth and rectangular teeth; downturned tip of nose attached to chin. Eyes inlaid with metal discs. Flat rim projects around circumference of mask and is inlaid with abalone pieces in various shapes, primarily rectangular. Two holes bored in rim below chin and two above forehead.

Culture
Nuxalk
Material
wood, abalone shell, metal and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA5297

Mask of a human face. Dark red/yellow-brown face has circular cut out hole eyes surrounded by a tapering and an area around the eyes that is recessed in suggestion of an ovoid shape with black brows above. The nostrils are cut out as is the thinly parted, slightly downturned mouth. The chin is pointed. Around the eyes and the cheeks, there is a black-painted delicate design consisting of a pair of u forms that have diagonal lines within. Remains of red paint in some areas. Leather thongs are attached with nails to the sides and the top of the mask at the rear.

Culture
Tsimshian: Gitxaala ?
Material
wood, paint, leather skin and metal
Made in
Kitkatla, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fragment: Totem PoleA2546

Rectangular wooden pole fragment. Carved in the bottom is a bear head with large ovoid eyes, a slightly protruding snout, teeth, a protruding tongue and pointed ears. Within its ear is a small human figure. Upon the animal’s head stands a human figure with an arm extended down to the figure in the ear. Pole is unpainted.

Culture
Gitanyow
Material
red cedar wood
Made in
Gitanyow, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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PaddleA2502

Wood paddle with a marquise-shaped blade with the widest point near the tip and narrowing to the shaft which is round in cross section. Butt is flared and rectangular in cross section with an indentation cut near the end. Handle is cut in the shape of a transverse cylinder, one end of which is broken off. Design is of a fish (?) painted on blade in green and black on one side and in turquoise and white on the other side.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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