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Model PaddleC1404

Model paddle with flat blade that is rectangular in shape and tapers toward neck. The handle is cylindrical and widens slightly near end.

Culture
Western Melanesia
Material
wood
Made in
Pacific Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model PaddleC1406

Model paddle with narrow, flat blade, and long, cylindrical handle. Model paddle does not have a noticeable neck.

Culture
Western Melanesian ?
Material
wood
Made in
Pacific Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model PaddleC1407

A wood paddle that has a crescent-shaped finial on the end of the plain handle. The blade has a wide leaf shape with an oblique base and an acute apice.

Culture
Cook Islanders
Material
wood
Made in
Cook Islands ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model PaddleC1408

A wood paddle that has a crescent-shaped finial on the end of the plain handle. The blade has a wide leaf shape with an oblique base and an acute apice.

Culture
Cook Islanders
Material
wood
Made in
Cook Islands ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HookC1747

Inwardly concavely curved shell shaft with the barb secured by a twisted line. There is a tassel of string at the barb end of the hook.

Culture
Cook Islanders
Material
shell and fibre
Made in
Rakahanga Atoll, Cook Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowC1749

The cane shaft is carved without linear designs. The base of the shaft, near the pointed end, is wrapped with fibre. The long hardwood point is plain dark wood.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
stem ? and wood
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ClubC1493

Rifle-shaped club carved from dark brown wood. Flat knob finial on the handle; handle is carved with rows of zigzag pattern. The head is curved and has a short spur; the inside of the curve is painted blue.

Culture
Fijian
Material
wood
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BoomerangC1495

A rounded wood boomerang that has simple parallel zigzag linear designs which are charred in places on the decorated top side face. This design consists of a double zigzag line (that are parallel to one another but) on either side of a central band of multiple curvi-linear lines that follow the shape of the boomerang. Pairs of vertical dashes are throughout. The back has a wavy texture with diagonal grooves along the convex edge.

Culture
Australian
Material
wood
Made in
Australia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearC1497

The tip is coiled with red plant fibre, below which, there are the following: five sets of four small barbs; two sets of four increasingly longer barbs; and seven sets of four small barbs. The point is decorated with a red and yellow grass sleeve with a horizontal zig zag pattern, a carved band that is emphasized with white and that consists of two figures (each of which has circular eyes in a double diamond shape outline and a double upward pointed nose), and a fibre tuft bordered by string at either end. Bright red and yellow plant fibre coiling are at either ends of the grass sleeve. The red-brown wood shaft is plain and tapers at the end.

Culture
Western Melanesia
Material
bone, grass fibre, wood and pigment ?
Made in
Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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WhistleD2.108

Thong dyed burnt sienna is attached with gut to a hollow bone whistle that has one hole.

Culture
Blackfoot
Material
skin and eagle bone ?
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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