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MaskNb3.1410 a-e

Mask (a) with flat top that has four feathers (b-e) inserted into a circular drilled hole at the top centre and is painted white with black and red details. The narrow forehead has large straight black eyebrows. The mask also has small semi-circular eye holes, a hooked nose with rounded semi-circular nostrils, a pursed protruding open mouth, a pointed chin, three crescentic ridged lines from the sides of the nose to the upper side rims. Two curved ridged lines and one painted line extend from mouth to temple, and there is a solid jaw line along side rims from temple to chin. On the reverse, grey-green cord has been looped and knotted through double holes drilled at centre top and on each side rim. Inscription.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, paint, feather, fibre and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ViolinNi63 a-b

Small roughly shaped wooden violin (part a) has scroll-like end, peg-box with four pegs, thin white cord looped and tied around one end of peg-box, fingerboard extending downward from peg-box, four metal strings with one end of each string looped around a peg and the other end passing through a hole in the tail piece, looping over the string and is twisting, on two strings at tail piece are metal circles with short yarn fringe. Small dark brown cleaver-like instrument attached to string on right by thin white cord. Small square piece of wood beneath end of tail piece. Looped and knotted palm fibre cord passes through holes in end of tail piece and around knob glued to bottom back. Two s-curved sound holes cut into sound board on either side of strings between fingerboard and tail piece. Sound board, sides, back and fingerboard are glued together. Bracket (part b) bow has 38 calibre gun shell cartridge at one end, cloth-strip wrapped and tied at end of cartridge, multiple strands of horsehair emerge from cloth and extend down length to pass through hole in opposite end and are knotted.

Culture
Huichol
Material
pine wood ?, metal, horse hair, cotton fibre, synthetic, palm leaf and adhesive
Made in
Jalisco, Mexico and Nayarit, Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskNa1121

Oval, green-brown face mask with smooth, contoured front surface. Eyebrow ridge forms a heart-shape with chin. Almond-shaped eye holes are deep-set, prominent high cheek, triangular nose with triangular nostrils at a ninety degree angle to face and mouth slit between thin dark pink-red wedge-shaped lips. Interior surface is grey-green with rough adze marks. Two small holes on either side of eyes. There is fishing line tied through the top set of holes. There are six other holes along the outside margin which do not go through to the inside. Hole at top back, slightly off-centre. Wood is checked at top margin.

Culture
Inuit
Material
pigment and wood
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskNa1120

Human face mask with smooth front, straight nose in high relief extending from curved eyebrows, and oval eyes cut through. Triangular nostrils cut in nose from bottom. Mouth is hole created by two intersecting ovals. Remnant of dark painted lines, vertical wedge on chin, horizontal line on left cheek, eyebrows, and parted hair indicated across top and vertical series of dots on lighter section at centre of forehead. Carving marks on interior surface are overall fairly smooth. Small holes on sides and indentation on one side indicates that a string or cord was previously tied there. Screwed in metal eye hook at centre above eyes with a twisted multi-ply wire attached. 'J.C.' is written in white at one side.

Culture
Inuit
Material
wood, paint and metal
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HandleNa1113

Bowhead whale shaped handle or toggle with a rectangular hole transversely through centre; oval incised flippers at bottom corner of hole, just before inlaid eyes and beginning of mouth incision which follows long tapering snout. Narrows before tail flukes at back.

Culture
Inuit
Material
adhesive, baleen ? and walrus tusk
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bee MaskNb3.1363

Bee mask. Slightly rounded white forehead has a black and yellow horizontal curvilinear design, red ovoid at centre of yellow; raised thick curved black brows; thin yellow line joins orbital areas at dip between forehead and large protruding bulbous snout; yellow round hollow protruding eyes with black and white bands around pupil; snout has black triangular shape at top and bottom joined by a narrow band, black outline; cluster of five holes, top hole on right has remains of 'stinger'; white, yellow and red crescentic designs around circular white hollow nostrils; white temple; defining line for cheeks melds with orbital ridge; curvilinear black line on cheek; square-like white line defines black split U on either side of mouth area; white and yellow bands around small pointed protruding red lip band, painted design converges at lower lip point; yellow triangle on upturned chin is outlined in white. Cut cedar bark, tied with white cord, folded around a folded orange-pink cloth and nailed to upper rim; white cord and red cloth are twined into the cedar bark lengths; at side on right folded white cloth, stitched with yellow thread, is nailed at temples; brown cord twined into first 7cm. of bark. On reverse, one brown cord passes through two holes in upper rim, looped and knotted through hole at each temple; second cord is looped and knotted through chin.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
fibre, paint, cedar bark and yellow cedar wood
Made in
Blunden Harbour, British Columbia, Canada ? or Ba'as, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Line ToggleNa1112

Bowhead whale shaped toggle with transverse hole drilled at centre. Short u-shaped flippers on sides next to wood ? inlaid eyes. Incised downturned mouth extends from just below each eye across large tapering snout. Narrows considerably to fluked tail at back.

Culture
Inuit
Material
walrus tusk and wood ?
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureNa1111

Miniature carved seal with flat snout; black circular graphite eyes on top of slightly rounded head. Body tapers to back. Triangular flippers with triangular notch between. Short flippers at front bottom. Hole drilled through centre top to bottom. Sawn at both ends, rasp-like marks and some scratches on smooth surface. Small amount of mottled dentine at top of head. Entire figure is mounted on a rectangular, brown wooden base.

Culture
Inuit
Material
graphite mineral, adhesive ?, walrus tusk and wood
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Clayoquot ShamanNb11.297

Humanoid face mask with a straight profile. Red horse's hair, with the ends wrapped in brown paper, are inserted into twenty-two holes drilled into the upper rim. Hollow oval eyes are surrounded by a plain tapering oval and a recessed oval. Light blue-green forehead has patches of white, wood visible through the paint, and an abstract red form line design on the forehead. Black brows protrude slightly. Blue-green band covers the temple, the orbital plane, the cheek, and the nose. Upward thrusting nostrils that are black on the underside and red on the outer side. Upper lip and chin. Three thin red-brown lines at the lower cheek on the left extend from the side edge to the mouth. One thick and one thin red-brown line on the lower cheek on the right extend from the side edge to the mouth. Open mouth with black next to the upper and lower teeth. On the reverse, there is a piece of wood that extends from the back of the mask with a strip of leather attached to the wood.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Tla-o-qui-aht
Material
paper, paint, cedar wood, horse hair and adhesive
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Haida SpiritNb11.296

Humanoid face mask with long brown hair glued into twenty drilled holes in the upper rim. Split red u along with an ovoid and a diagonal form line design on the forehead. Pointed downturned eyelids. Hollow tapering semi-oval red eyes are surrounded by a green area above connecting across the bridge of the nose in between and over to the right side of the mask. Red ears. An eight red rounded point design surrounds the mouth and extends on to the cheek area and the nose. On the reverse, there are six holes on the upper rim, hair and glue in two holes. Small piece of wood glued between the mouth and the nose at the back. Two holes are drilled into each side of the mask at eye level while a length of string passes through the holes and is tied.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Tla-o-qui-aht
Material
hair, adhesive, fibre, paint and wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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