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?Bowl1891.49.66

Horn scoop, wide at one end and narrowing at the other, with small perforation by the handle. [CAK 19/04/2010]

Culture
Haida
Material
sheep horn
Made in
Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
Pitt Rivers Museum
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?Bowl1891.49.65

Horn dish with incised linear design and a small perforation at the handle. [ZM 14/11/2005]

Culture
Haida
Material
sheep horn and copper metal
Made in
British Columbia Haida Gwaii NW Coast, Canada
Holding Institution
Pitt Rivers Museum
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Bentwood ChestA6335 a-b

Rectangular bentwood box with lid (part b). There are Northwest Coast designs painted on the chest panels, but only traces of the imagery are visible beneath the overall darkened surface. Lid is unpainted.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
paint and red cedar wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Kulus SculptureA50011 a

Large wooden sculpture carved in the form of a bird and painted yellow or faded green with black, white and red stylized designs. Missing its wings. Has carved legs; only one claw remains. Its chest has a painted face, while the lower body holds detailing representative of a bird. The head has carved eyes and a large protruding beak; the sides have painted ovoids. The lower part of the beak is missing.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
paint, cedar wood and metal
Made in
Hope Island, British Columbia, Canada and Xwamdasbe', British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Kulus SculptureA50011 b

Large wooden sculpture carved in the form of a bird. Painted yellow (or faded green?) with black, white and red stylized designs. Missing its wings and legs. It has carved eyes and a large protruding beak. On its chest are design forms that depict feathers.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
metal, paint and cedar wood
Made in
Hope Island, British Columbia, Canada and Xwamdasbe', British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ContainerCa66 a-b

Large round-body, part (a), is light coloured wood with two small protruding handles pierced, with leather handle strap going through them and attaching to wider leather strap. Extra piece of leather connected to side of leather strap. Mouth of container is wrapped and woven with grasses. Lid, part (b) is bulbous with round and smaller flat top, does not fit well on container. Inside container is charred black.

Culture
Borana
Material
leather skin, grass and wood
Made in
Somalia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA4486 a-b

Human face with a moveable eagle head mounted on a pole and connected with canvas. Four moveable slats representing the feathers of the wings attach to back of mask. Yellow ties on back.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
cotton fibre, wood and paint
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureA17158

Figure representing an animal head with emphasized eye sockets, stylized eyes with eyelids, an elongated snout with a ridge along the top, protruding domed nostrils with a hole at the centre of each, lips emphasized by a recessed line, and bared teeth with four fang-like teeth at the front that taper to a point at the bottom of each. The figure is painted black with red nostrils and teeth.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
cedar wood ? and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Feast DishA1785

Carved wooden, oval shaped dish (łuk’wa) with centre concavity. Made from a single piece of wood, the bowl represents the upper body of a killer whale. One end has the whale’s head in red and black, carved in shallow relief with its mouth open. On the sides, below the mouth is the blowhole, cutout and outlined in red. Behind the hole are the side fins incised with horizontal lines. At the opposite end is a crouched male figure with his head facing upwards and its arms outstretched holding onto the back of the killer whale. The figure has black hair, a black belt and wrist bands. (Repaired with copper wire).

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
paint, cedar wood and copper metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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LoomE184 a-d

A loom (part a-d) with an unfinished woven wool textile consisting of white striped geometric pattern of circles, ovals and triangles on a dark green ground. The textile is attached to two large, cylindrical shaped wooden sticks (part a). Intertwined in the warp is one cylindrical shaped heddle covered in dark green twine; two bamboo sticks and three flat, rectangular battens with triangular, pointed ends (parts b,c,d).

Culture
Zapotec ?
Material
wool fibre, bamboo grass, wood and dye
Made in
Oaxaca, Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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