• Results (650)
  • Search

Item Search

The item search helps you look through the thousands of items on the RRN and find exactly what you’re after. We’ve split the search into two parts, Results, and Search Filters. You’re in the results section right now. You can still perform “Quick searches” from the menu bar, but if you’re new to the RRN, click the Search tab above and use the exploratory search.

View Tutorial

Log In to see more items.

FigureN2.987 a-p

Household shrine encased in a black boxlike structure. Front opening has two pairs of hinged doors. Predominantly gold, black, and red. Part a is the overall box structure; parts b and j are red railings; parts c and e are gold-coloured stands; parts d and f are gold-coloured candle stands; part g is a lotus-shaped stand; part h is a stand that apparently has had a (formerly separate) Buddhist Bodhisattva figure (N2.838 a) glued onto it; part i is a vase attached to its own stand; part k is a black fence; part l is a table; part m is a gold metal bracket for table; part n is a stand for table; part o is a stand with feet for encasing part a; part p is the base for under part o.

Culture
Japanese
Material
wood
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
FanN2.705

Collapsible fan consisting of folded silver paper that has four columns of Japanese characters painted in black, and which is supported by three black lacquered bamboo ribs and two outer, wide lacquered ribs. The reverse side of the paper is gold.

Culture
Japanese
Material
bamboo grass, lacquer, paint and paper
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
DrawingNb3.1434

Three pencil drawings on white paper glued to a vertically rectangular, black cardboard piece and covered with clear plastic. Top drawing or tracing is a bilaterally symmetrical bird head with three-feathered wings to the sides, a three-feathered tail at the top, and three-clawed feet below on both sides. Middle drawing is a frontal bird with a long beak at the centre, three feathered wings that are folded into the body, and three-clawed feet pointing inward with a pencil line border around the image. 'RAVEN by Clarence' is written below. The bottom drawing is of a kneeling woman with arms out to the sides, u-shaped breasts, and decorations on the knees and the face that include eye shapes on the former and crescent shapes on the latter. Outlined just like the second drawing with "Tsonoqua' written below.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Made in
'Yalis (Alert Bay), British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
CarvingNa1419 a-b

Figure carrying seal on his back (a) is pegged to a flat topped, irregularly-shaped stand (b). Figure has hunched shoulders and has his rimmed parka hood up. The figure also has a broad triangular nose, as well as crescent-shaped eyes and mouth. The tail of the seal is behind the figure's head and he is holding the seal with his right arm bent up and back. His upper body is turned on an angle from his legs.

Culture
Inuit
Material
wood and stone
Made in
Sanikiluaq, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
DrawingNb3.1431

Right facing figure on cut out white-brown paper in orange felt pen and paint over pencil line drawing. Face at the top with a triangular appendage at the top, a u-shaped appendage to the left, and a large nose ? to the right. Whale-like face at the centre with various shapes to the centre. Smaller face at the bottom with a wing-like appendage behind. Pencil inscription across the bottom reads 'Norman Bell May 29-69'. Glued to blue, then white cardboard. The drawing is vertically rectangular. Covered with clear plastic.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Made in
'Yalis (Alert Bay), British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
DrawingNb3.1430

Profile whale facing to the right with three rows of black and red dots extending from the spout. A series of green and black split u's around the top and the back of the head; green and black eye circular eye in a tapering oval with a black eyebrow. Mouth has white teeth, then yellow and black u forms, then red and black split u's. Black u forms on the body and a black split u on the dorsal fin with green and black dots on the belly. Red and green shape by the spout and a green circle with red semi-circles on the tail. In green felt pen, at the top left: 'Robert King'; in the bottom left: 'KILLER WHALE'. The drawing is on a horizontally rectangular, white paper piece that is glued to green card stock covered with clear plastic.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Made in
'Yalis (Alert Bay), British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
NecklaceEdz1405

A metal chain with seventeen charms attached: three amber beads; one amber ingot; one jade ring; one jade bead; two coins with square holes; a piece of coral; a jade disc with a round hole; one carved peach kernel; a carved monkey holding a peach; a jade Buddha's hand; a jade lotus; a pilgrim's gourd; a silver, and bird claw sword; and a bird's beak mounted with silver.

Culture
Chinese
Material
nut, beak, silver metal, claw, stone, coral, metal, amber stone and jade mineral
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
FigureEd5.3067

Reclining man with shoulders resting on two jugs with his right foot on top of his left knee and his head resting on his hand. He is wearing a flowing robe, long beard and a cap. There is a small chip at his right knee and at his elbow.

Culture
Japanese
Material
adhesive, lacquer and wood
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
DrawingNb3.1427

Village scene drawn in pencil and coloured with pencil crayons. The scene includes four masked dancers in the foreground at the water's edge, two gable roofed houses with vertical planking in the background, three totem poles, and a row of seven trees. In pencil, at the top right, there reads 'Malcolm age - 13'. The drawing is horizontally rectangular on a white paper piece glued to green cardboard. Covered with clear plastic.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Made in
'Yalis (Alert Bay), British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
FigureNa1200

Standing stone figure wearing hooded parka with antler boots glued to legs and smaller figure in baby pouch on back, left side. Figure is leaning forward slightly with arm on right slightly extended out to side. Figure's hood is bulbous at top. Facial features include nearly oval eyes, triangular nose and straight mouth. Child has similar features and one arm is outside pouch. Two parallel u-shaped lines around bottom of pouch. Carving marks are visible on mottled stone. Some natural fissures or cracks and pits. Black patch on front.

Culture
Inuit
Material
stone and antler
Made in
Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada and Qamanittuaq, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record