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Ceremonial HeaddressN1.303

A headdress with a high vertical rounded front and flat top sloping downward to the back which is a shorter vertical band. Frame is of wire covered with intricately interlaced bands of black silk braid and fabric. Attached to the headdress with wires, there are highly perforated and layered gold-coloured brass roundels in the shape of flowers and leaves, all inlaid with various shades of bright blue kingfisher feathers outlined with metal. On and around them, there are many ornaments mounted on wires which include the following: bats made of pearls, flowers made of pink glass, gemstones inset in metal, green stone butterflies, and a large roundel of pink quartz. From the front of the headdress, there are suspended strands of pearls with coloured stone butterflies in the middle and stone drops at the end.

Culture
Manchu
Material
metal, brass metal, gold metal, kingfisher feather, silk fibre, dye, adhesive, stone, quartz mineral, coral, pearl and glass ?
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ceremonial HeaddressN1.302

A headdress with a high vertical rounded front and flat top sloping downward to the back which is a shorter vertical band. Frame is of wire covered with intricately interlaced bands of black silk braid and fabric. Attached to the headdress with wires, there are convex gold-coloured brass plaques in the shape of flowers and leaves, all inlaid with iridescent bright blue, and darker blue-purple kingfisher feathers outlined with metal. The centres of the flowers are formed of circles of many wires with rounded ends, surrounding inset stones in blue, and green.

Culture
Chinese
Material
metal, brass metal, gold metal, kingfisher feather, silk fibre, dye, adhesive, stone ? and glass ?
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceC130

A crescent shape edged in small white shells creating rectangular panels with seventeen perpendicular lines of the same small white shells. A long piece of fibre connects the two ends of the crescent.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
shell, rattan and fibre
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FanC463

A basketry woven fan with a deltoid leaf shape. The main geometric design consists of a double pair of curved dark brown bark rows, one from the inside and the other along the outside, going from the bottom of one side to the top of the other side. Light brown bark background.

Culture
Fijian
Material
hair, wood, palm leaf and bark
Made in
Vanua Levu, Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Boots1128/15 a-b

Ankle-high reindeer fur boots with up-turned toes and multicoloured laces, made of white fur with brown fur soles. The foot opening is edged with brown skin. The six loops on each tongue are also made with brown skin. Criss-crossed through the tongue loops is a long multicoloured string. The string is made up of red, yellow-green and blue strands. On the ends there are square tassels in red, yellow and green.

Culture
Sami
Material
reindeer skin, wool fibre, cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Sweden
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FanEd5.1461

Folding fan with thirty-three inner ribs of split bamboo and two bamboo parent ribs. Covered on both sides with white paper printed on one side with dark blue band at upper edge, painted with leaves and flowers in light and dark red, light blue, and grey. Rivet of light yellow plastic, through which is threaded a cord of white silk 14cm. long (double) on which is threaded an imitation pearl.

Culture
Japanese
Material
silk fibre, adhesive, plastic, paper and bamboo grass
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headdress1498/2

A woman’s headdress consisting of a crown and a broad panel that hangs down along the back. It is shaped from a piece of coarsely woven dark brown and blue textile and is heavily decorated with cowrie shells, red and white glass beads, and embroidery. The crown portion is embellished with closely-spaced rows of cowrie shells and a central strip of geometric shapes formed from red and white glass beads. There is a large brown and orange pom pom at the centre back. The “tail” is decorated with scattered small buttons of various kinds and small silver diamond-shaped ornaments. A costume jewelry brooch (gold with red and blue stones) is pinned in the centre. There is a strip of embroidered geometric shapes at the end of the “tail", and the bottom edge is finished with a braided fringe formed from the warp threads of the textile.

Culture
Kalash
Material
wool fibre, goat hair fibre ?, cotton fibre, cowrie shell, glass, plastic and dye
Made in
Chitral, Northwest Frontier, Pakistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HookA2.334

A large Y-shaped antler piece which curves around at the other end which has a peg near the end. Metal nails go through the cross-section near the end which splits into a Y-shape. Braided sinew is loosely wrapped around the crevasse in between the Y-shape and around the opposite curved end tip. At the end of the braided sinew, there is a rounded bone piece with a curved metal hook.

Culture
Inuit: Inuinnait
Material
steel metal, caribou antler, sinew and bone
Made in
Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headdress1498/1

A woman’s headdress made from coarsely woven dark brown wool textile. Consisting of a headband and an attached narrow “tail” or streamer that hangs down the back. Lavishly decorated with cowrie shells, red, and white glass beads, buttons, and embroidery. The headband is embellished with two rows of cowrie shells separated by a row of red glass beads. The bottom edge of the headband is finished with multi-coloured embroidery resembling a braid. The “tail” is trimmed with many buttons, red, and white glass beads, and cowrie shells forming floral and geometric shapes. The bottom is fringed (about 13.5 cm) and the side edges are finished with red, blue, and yellow-green embroidery resembling a braid. The textile used to construct the headband is woven in plain weave while the streamer is made from warp yarns which have been braided and loosely woven together to form a fabric.

Culture
Kalash
Material
wool fibre, goat hair fibre ?, cotton fibre ?, cowrie shell, glass, plastic and dye
Made in
Chitral, Northwest Frontier, Pakistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketH1.309 a-o

Nest of fourteen round, flat bottomed woven baskets. The outer basket (part a) has alternating bands of red and blue around the sides and a lid (part o). The lid has alternating bands of red, blue, and open work encircling its centre. The inner baskets each have a red rim. A broken braided handle arcs from one side of the basket to the other.

Culture
Chilean
Material
horse hair and dye
Made in
Maule, Chile
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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