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Canoe ProwIe358

Triangular shaped wooden prow with a cylindrical shaped base that tapers to a point. The sides of the base are incised with a repeating stylized geometric design. Attached below is a framework of triangular shapes intermixed with fish and bird heads. White pigment outlines the shapes while orange pigment is added to the engravings. Five fibre tassels hang from the base.

Culture
Asmat
Material
wood, charcoal pigment, lime mineral, ochre pigment, fibre and chalk stone ?
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeadrestIe357

A wood horizontal element stained dark brown and carved on the ends and on the underside in the form of a double-headed reptile with bird-like heads lying on the back of the necks. Ridges on the underside are interrupted near one set of legs. Legs are of light brown wood cut and wrapped around the horizontal, then bound with fibre to form two a-shapes.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
stain, bamboo grass, fibre and wood
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BowlIe356

Unevenly round, deep wood bowl with a band of geometric design incised near the rim. From two holes set close together protrude remnants of vegetable fibres. Worn and faded black pigment on the outer surface.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
fibre, pigment and wood
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA3789

Large, carved, wooden, raven hamatsa mask with a long beak and an ovoid shaped ridge for a nose. The beak is hinged with pieces of rubber nailed to either side. The beak is painted black with a red mouth and circular cutout nostrils. At the back of the mouth are two s-shapes. Around the nose is a red ovoid and U-forms. The eyes are white, outlined in black on a white, ovoid shaped background; brow is black. The inside of the mask is hollow with the exception of twine used to open and close the beak along with a fibre head ring. The top, side and bottom edges of the mask are lined with braided cedar. The top has short pieces of cedar creating a fringe, while the back has longer strips that hang over the wearer. The underside of the mouth is painted black with a small white design. The mask is painted black, red, and white with Northwest Coast stylized designs.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, cedar bark, paint, fibre, rubber and metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ClubC668

Club with short handle that has a slightly rounded triangular end and a flaring blade. The blade is decorated with incised spiral, crescent and wave designs in relief on the top half of both faces. Palm leaves are threaded through holes along the end of the blade.

Culture
Trobriand
Material
ebony wood and palm leaf
Made in
Kiriwina Islands, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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DrumstickNh154

Long, circular wooden stick painted blue, orange and white. A white star is incised on the tip of the bulbous end. The orange and blue meet in a white incised zigzag design. At the narrow end of the stick the blue paint has flaked off, and the natural wood shows.

Culture
Navajo
Material
wood and paint
Made in
Arizona, USA ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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DollEf247

Wood figure representing a female carved in the half-round with painted decoration. Skin is painted yellow. Has eyes, eyebrows, and a red dot mark in the middle of the forehead. Has a small red mouth. Has black hair in an arch shape decorated with white dots. Wearing a high round red headpiece decorated with white dots. Has a blue and red robe outlined in black and decorated with white tear drops and circles.

Culture
Bengali
Material
wood and paint
Made in
West Bengal, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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DollEf246

Wood figure representing a male carved in the half-round with painted decoration. Skin is painted yellow. Has eyes, eyebrows, and three diagonal red marks in the middle of the forehead. Has a small red mouth with a black moustache. Has black hair in a trapezoid shape decorated with white dots. Wearing a high round red, green, white, and black headpiece. Has a red robe decorated with horizontal white lines, and circles. His green coat is decorated with curvi-linear white and black lines and dots.

Culture
Bengali
Material
wood and paint
Made in
West Bengal, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Line Marker ToolN2.502

Carved dark brown wood shaped like elongated pear in transverse cross section. Wider end hollowed to form a bowl-like depression. Inserted vertically through narrow end is a wheel with a cleft deep cut around its perimeter, .9 cm. from each side. Wheel mounted on brass axle with brass handle projecting 4.3 cm. from one side. Traces of thread in cleft. Hole lined with white glass tube bored through from wheel to inside bowl with similar hole opposite from inside to outside of bowl. Around outside of bowl are carved dragon and cloud shapes.

Culture
Japanese
Material
cotton fibre ?, glass, brass metal, wood and fibre
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureEd1.215

Dark grey, smooth, carved stone, light grey in recessed areas. Shaped like an isosceles triangle with rounded apex. Base is a large open lotus above which is a small ledge, worn smooth. An inverted u sits at each end. On ledge are three standing male figures in full relief; robes flowing outwards to ground. Robes have square open necks and wide sleeves. Each figure has hand on abdomen. Central figure has lotus headdress; others have bulbous crosshatched headdresses. Behind figures is flat triangular plaque with disc above central figure and scroll carvings around them.

Culture
Korean
Material
basalt stone ?
Made in
Korea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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