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MaskEh110 a-c

Humanoid face, glossy red, surmounted by green cobra headdress (a) with two detachable ear appendages, (right ear: b; left ear: c) each a coiled cobra with others emerging from either corner of mouth that attaches into a hole in the mask via an unfinished tenon. The eye sockets, and the area at the root of the nose are embellished with petal motifs. The white eyeballs with black pupils project in an exaggerated conical form. The upper lip is drawn back from the open mouth. Two rows of white teeth are exposed with a lolling red tongue. There is a large white fang extending down from each corner of the mouth. The cobras on the brow and at the top of the head each have their hood extended and are painted with faces. The scales are rendered in lines on varying background colours of grey, light red, dark red, and yellow. The body shield plates are in grey and white stripes. The cobras issuing from the mask's nostrils wrap around the fangs.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
paint and nux vomica wood ?
Made in
Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ContainerAf471

A calabash with geometric relief designs around shoulder, above, and on flat base. At the widest circumference are four supernatural beasts. Between and beneath the beasts are shield-like forms and above back tails are wedge-shaped designs. Texture on carved forms is achieved by fine incised lines. The animal portrayed has the body and claws of a cat, a bird-like head, and beak, and a long tail terminating in a spade-shaped tip. Above and beneath the animal are geometric designs consisting of wedge shaped bordered by seven straight horizontal lines encircling the container. The base design consists of tapering arms radiating from a circle. The negative background of the calabash is yellow-red and the positive areas are black. The black forms are outlined in deeper relief than the surrounding background.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
calabash fruit
Made in
Oyo, Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Decorated GourdAf470

Hemisphere or half a calabash gourd decorated on the outer surface with a painted and carved relief design of a large undulating serpent starting with the head above a small semi-circle hole near the rim and ending with the tail at the same point. Within the undulations, there are six birds and one lizard(?). Geometric pattern around rim, around a 2 cm hole in the centre, and around hole near the edge. All designs are blue.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
paint and calabash fruit
Made in
Oyo, Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FluteIe387

Flute consisting of a large piece of loose skinned bamboo, bound with two sets of crisscrossing fibre and three cassowary feather rings at the top, middle and bottom. The stop of the flute is a carved kneeling man facing outwards with a crested bird standing behind him with its claws ? resting on the man’s head. The bird has a large extending crest on its head, long groups of feathers hanging from the side of its head and carved stylized detailing on its body. Both the bird and the man have cowrie eyes; the bird also has four tassels down the back. The figures and the fibre ties on the bamboo are covered in a black pigment.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood, sennit fibre, bamboo grass, cassowary feather, pigment and cowrie shell
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Suspension HookIe379

Basket hook with a humanoid head at the top surmounted by a carved loop. The head is mounted on a shaft that is diamond-shaped in cross-section and bulges slightly at the centre. The hook is double-sided.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
oil, charcoal and wood
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ancestor FigureIe378

Tall human male figure with a rounded head, inflated stomach, prominent groin area, short arms and short legs. The head has an extra circle around it with small ear-like projections out each side, incised eyes and mouth. The figure is surrounded by birds. Extending over its head are two Byth’s hornbill heads which go up then the beaks point down. There are two other protruding bird heads appearing over the shoulder of the human. Between the legs of the human figure is another bird with its tail hanging down and its head facing upwards with its bird slightly ajar. All are painted in various stylized patterns in orange, yellow and white on a black ground. There is a necklace painted in white on the chest of the human figure.

Culture
Abelam
Material
wood and paint
Made in
East Sepik, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Spear ThrowerIe376

Bamboo tube, cut out along more than a third of its length, with faint zig zags and lines carved around the socket end. The other end is a carved wooden plug with a conical tip and string looped through a hole. Fibre binds the plug and hook to the tube; it also forms a collar near one end. The hook is a wavy loop of wood with contour lines and an eye-like hole. Pigmented brown, lighter, and worn on the tube.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood, charcoal, fibre and bamboo grass
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Spear ThrowerIe375

Bamboo tube, cut open more than a third of its length, which is undecorated but pierced by a hole near one end. Wood hook is carved like a bird profile, with incised 'eyes', 'crest', 'beak', and 'body marks'. The hook is bound to the tube with fibre. Painted brown but the pigment is worn off the bamboo on the sides and the underside.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
bamboo grass, fibre, charcoal and wood
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskNb3.1318

Wolf mask which projects up and out from the plane of a dancer's forehead. The black and white head has a snout and partly laid back ears on top of the head. Ears have a black exterior; interior, rimmed in white, is red and green with a white split-u. Top of head, brows and snout are black with white lines and arcs on mouth, cheeks, top of snout and edges of head. Outer white orb sweeps from back bottom of mask up to top of snout. Eye is black eyelid line with an inner line in red, a white eyeball and the pupil is a black dot within the circle of the iris. Teeth are white rectangles lined in red; canines are pointed. Red tongue is a flat disk projecting from mouth, resting against the snout. The lips are red; red nostrils have two white drilled holes. One green ovoid behind each eye and three green split-u's on either cheek. Four, rectangular pieces of abalone in brow and five pieces above the mouth are set with nails. Long, white, cotton shoelaces are tied to the back, corner of the mask.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, abalone shell, paint and metal
Made in
Blunden Harbour, British Columbia, Canada ? or Ba'as, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Spear ThrowerIe402

A bamboo tube, cut open half of its length, with a loop, collar, and binding of fibre at one end. The other end is undecorated. The wood hook is carved as a curved-billed bird. The whole is pigmented black, though worn off in patches all over bamboo.

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