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RattleA6097

Yellow-brown wood rattle consisting of two rounded pieces put together, each with a semi-cylindrical handle, creating a full rounded square rattle nailed together. Design consisting of a human face that has black circle in circle eyes outlined by a carved tapering oval and surrounded with a green area and two semi-oval black areas on top of the head, a black dot with red detailing for the nose, and an open red mouth showing twelve plain teeth with a curving green line along the cheeks. Face is surrounded by a red halo-like projection feature with radiating red spikes around the head. There were originally nine spikes, there are only five left intact.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
cedar wood, paint and metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleA6100

Light brown wood rattle consisting of two rounded pieces put together, each with a semi-cylindrical handle, creating a full rounded oval rattle. Along either sides of each piece, there is a hole to bind the two pieces together with wire. Pieces are also bound together at the top with wire. Handle is bound with brown string. Designs consisting of a face, possibly a bear and a whale? One face has black ovoid in ovoid eyes with an inverted black u form above with a plain oval within at either top side and a horizontal, red oval mouth with extending upper side lines. The other face has black outlined thin ovoid eyes with red nostrils and a black outlined open red mouth showing twelve plain teeth. Above this face, there is an inverted black outlined u form that has two plain dots at either lower side with an inverted black split u above.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, paint, copper metal and cotton fibre
Made in
Blunden Harbour, British Columbia, Canada ? or Ba'as, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleA4027

Brown wood rattle consisting of two rounded pieces put together, each with a semi-cylindrical handle, creating a full rounded oval rattle. Along either sides of each piece, there is a hole to bind the two pieces together with cedar bark. Pieces are also bound together at the top with cedar bark. Handle is bound with brown string. Designs consisting of a large human face painted on both sides and carved with a projecting beak nose that is decorated with cedar bark bound with string. Both faces have circular black pupils outlined by a plain carved tapering oval surrounded by a dark blue area with black brows above and a pair of red and dark blue split u forms above. The mouths are outlined by black with red lips with one face having a black goatee.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw ?
Material
fibre, cedar bark, wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowC905

A plain shaft with a long wood point in the shape of multiple stacked cones. The shaft is wrapped with fibre around the upper end and has a pair of double grooved horizontal lines around the lower end. The point has six stacked cones progressing shorter toward the top with the one at the tip being of the medium size and four horizontal grooved lines around the base.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
fibre, wood and stem ?
Made in
Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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QuiverC1289 a-l

A quiver (part a) with eleven slim plain shafts (parts b-l) that have elaborately barbed points. The quiver (part a) is carved with geometric linear and 'x' designs. Part b: plain broken shaft having four joint parts; c: plain broken shaft having two joint parts with fibre wrapped around the upper end and a long dark point that has an elongated pyramidal tip with four upraised bands around its base; d: plain shaft with fibre wrapped around both ends and a long dark point that has an elongated pyramidal tip with four upraised bands around its base; e: plain shaft with fibre wrapped around both ends and a long dark point that has an elongated pyramidal tip with multiple sets of three and four upraised bands around it; f: plain shaft with fibre wrapped around the upper end and a long dark point that has an elongated pyramidal tip with one upraised bands around its base; g: plain shaft with fibre wrapped around both ends and a long dark point that has an elongated pyramidal tip with one upraised bands around its base; h: plain shaft with fibre wrapped around both ends and a long dark point that has an elongated pyramidal tip with singular sets of upraised bands around it; i: plain shaft with fibre wrapped around both ends and a long dark point; j: plain shaft with fibre wrapped around both ends and a long dark point that has an elongated pyramidal tip with singular sets of upraised bands around it; k: plain shaft with fibre wrapped around both ends and a long dark point that has an elongated pyramidal tip with one upraised bands around its base; and l: plain shaft with fibre wrapped around both ends and a long dark point.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
stem ?, wood, fibre and bamboo grass
Made in
Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TrayA1134

Divided tray, or box. Square as viewed from above, with sides that angle outwards towards the top edge and upright walls that divide the box into four sections. Both upright walls have curved edges, but one is much more pronounced and higher than the other. Distributive design in black and red, overall. The top edges are painted black and the outside edges of the base are painted red.

Culture
Heiltsuk
Material
lacquer, metal, paint, cedar wood and yellow cedar wood
Made in
Bella Bella, British Columbia, Canada and 'Qvuqvai, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BowlA405 a-b

Dish in the form of a frog (a) with another small frog grasping onto a slightly domed round lid (b) that fits into the back of the large frog. The large frog is painted black with red lips, and the small frog is painted with a thin coat of black all over except for the whites of the eyes and the feet.

Culture
Heiltsuk
Material
wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA5268

Mouse(?) mask, with small rounded ears, eyebrows with a peak at the top centre, a short snout, prominent incisors on the top and bottom of the mouth, and eyes inlaid with abalone shell. The mask is painted grey around the edges with dark grey stripes over green on the face and chin, black and red alternating stripes on the ears, black eyebrows, dark brown nostrils, red lips, and off-white teeth.

Culture
Heiltsuk
Material
abalone shell, wood, paint and adhesive
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model PaddleC1405

Light brown wood paddle with a slightly flat cylindrical handle. Paddle blade shape is long with slightly rounded flat side edges tapering to a point. Flat base of the paddle blade is carved with a curved line on either side.

Culture
Western Melanesian
Material
wood
Made in
Pacific Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleA3544

Brown wood rattle consisting of two rounded pieces put together, each with a semi-cylindrical handle, creating a full rounded rattle. Along either sides of each piece, there is a hole to bind the two pieces together with brown string. Pieces are also bound together at the top. Handle is bound with brown string. Designs consisting of a large human face painted on both sides. Both faces have black outlined L-shaped eyes that are consisting of an upper horizontal green oval (one face has plain black outlined pupils while the other face has an additional dot within) with dashes (one face has green dashes while the other face has red dashes) in the lower section, thick black brows with a black and red design above, a black nose consisting of two circles connected by an inverted u-line, a red mouth outlined by black, a curving red line along the cheeks, and an inward pointing sideways red w-shape at either side. A thin red downward pointing line is below the black brows on one face while a red line extends from the curving red line along the cheeks up along the nose and around the top of the black brows down to the inward pointing sideways red w-shape at either side.

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