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Thorn CarvingAf433

Figure representing a male standing with a gun in the vertical position with the stock facing upwards. He is wearing a shirt and short trousers. Head, limbs, and part of the gun are dark brown. Clothing and part of gun are light yellow-brown. The base is light brown wood.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
egun thorn, wood, rice adhesive and atum thorn
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thorn CarvingAf424

Two figures representing people. One is standing, slightly bent with a cylindrical drum on a strap around the neck, and wearing a hat, a short-sleeved shirt, and knee-length trousers with small sticks in both hands. Other figure is standing on the head and forearms wearing knee-length trousers and legs bent forward from hips. Shirt, trousers, and drum head is light yellow-brown. Figures and body of drum are dark brown. Hat is light red-brown. The small sticks are light brown wood. The base is light brown wood stained brown.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
rice adhesive, wood, egun thorn, atum thorn, stain and fibre
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thorn CarvingAf423

Three figures representing women. Two women are pounding yams with a double-headed pestle and a single-headed one. The third is stirring cooking yams with a long handled spoon. Two figures are wearing knee-length skirts and tops while a third is wearing a skirt. Two have similar flat hairdos while the other has a conically shaped hairdo. The yams are in a mortar sitting on the ground and in a pottery cooking bowl elevated over a fire. Head, limbs, and cooking pot are dark brown. Clothing, pestle, mortar, and spoon are light yellow-brown. The yams are light red-brown. All are glued to a light brown base covered with earth.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
atum thorn, wood, rice adhesive and egun thorn
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thorn CarvingAf422

Figure representing a man wearing a sleeveless shirt and knee-length pants is climbing a palm tree with an adze on his left shoulder. He is being supported by a rope belt. Palm nuts on the tree and on the base which is plywood covered by variegated thorn shavings. Heads, limbs, adze, and palm tree are dark brown. Clothing is light yellow-brown. Palm nuts are light red-brown.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
atum thorn, rice adhesive, stain, wood and egun thorn
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thorn CarvingAf421

A carved scene of a tree trunk covered with thorns and having a five-rung ladder set against the side. There is a bareheaded man on the third rung with a hatchet over his right shoulder. A man with a conical hat is on the ground holding the right side of the ladder and with a machete in his left hand. A basket is sitting on the ground to the left of the ladder. The men are wearing short-sleeved loose shirts and knee- length pants. The ground is covered with chips and shavings. Shirts, pants, machete, and basket are light yellow-brown. Heads, limbs, and hatchet are dark brown. Man's hat is light red-brown. The ladder is light brown wood. The base is covered in variegated thorn bush shavings.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
egun thorn, rice adhesive, atum thorn, wood and stain
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BottleAf454 a-b

Rawhide bottle (part a) with spherical base and elongated neck. Lid (part b) fits over outer edges of upper neck. The lower half of the base is covered with brown haired cowhide with white patches. Upper half has five narrow strips of cowhide alternating white and brown, four of which are linear, with the fifth and uppermost curvilinear. The uppermost linear strip is detached at end close to handle. Two looped handles are at opposite side of upper half of base. Base of neck has six linear strips of alternating brown and white cowhide with brown and white linear strip at upper end, and looped handle at top.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
rawhide skin, adhesive and cow skin
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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DrumstickAf472

Curved wooden drumstick. The small round head has been covered with leather.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
wood, leather skin and adhesive
Made in
Ibadan, Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thumb PianoAa172

Rectangular thumb-piano carved from one piece of wood hollowed out and separate sides glued on. Ten metal playing strips (7.7 to 11.6 cm. in length), one is missing at the side, separated by a strip of grass(?) fibres attached through fourteen holes.

Culture
Mbuti ?
Material
wood, iron metal, fibre and adhesive
Made in
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thorn CarvingAf372

Palm tree on a wood base of variegated thorn bush carvings. Figure is being held by a rope while climbing the tree. At the base of the tree, there are three ritual masks, one figure, five horns, and one vessel. The figure climbing the tree is wearing a short-sleeved shirt, short trousers, and a soft pointed hat. An axe is resting on his right shoulder. The small figure at the base has a horn placed on either side. Three remaining horns are placed on the masks and a vessel is placed between the small figure and the largest mask. The base, tree, masks, head, limbs, and three horns are dark brown. Hats, two horns, and vessel are light red-brown. Small figure at the base, shirt, and trousers are light yellow-brown.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
atum thorn, rice adhesive, stain, wood and egun thorn
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thorn CarvingAf371

Three figures representing people standing in front of two mask-like heads which are resting against a low wall-like support. One mask has a horn protruding from the side of the head and the other has two horns. The centre figure is holding a horn in its right hand and a perforated cylinder in its left, and she is wearing a short-sleeved dress. The woman on her right has her arms outstretched towards the masks, and she is wearing a sling around her waist over a sleeveless dress. The man on her left is holding a chicken, and he is wearing a sleeveless tunic and short pants. The heads, arms, legs, masks and three horns are dark brown. The chicken and perforated object are light red-brown. The clothing and two horn containers are light yellow-brown. Carvings are set on a platform covered with thorn tree chips.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
atum thorn, rice adhesive, stain, wood and egun thorn
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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