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FigureEf305

Male figure standing on round lotus base. Hand on left holds a pot, hand on right holds an axe. Has a top knot and long strand of hair down back; wears arm bands on both arms, and necklaces. Base sealed with copper sheet and decorated with floral design in centre.

Culture
Indian: Northern Indian and Indian: Central Indian
Material
brass metal and copper metal
Made in
India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureEf303

Female seated on elaborate chair with leg pendant; holds ladle in hand on left and bowl in hand on right. Wears headdress with flame-like crown. Braid down back. Jewellery and garments denoted with incising and casting. Chair back has a bird-like head at the top and peacock-like feather design around sides in an arch shape. Back attached to chair by plugs; figure bolted to chair seat.

Culture
Indian: Northern Indian and Indian: Central Indian
Material
bronze metal
Made in
India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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PipeAa85

Dark brown hollow bone with incised linear design on wider end, rubbed with fat and ash for emphasis.

Culture
Khoisan ?
Material
bone, fat and ash
Made in
Okavango Swamps, Botswana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SwordCc2 a-c

Sword (part a) with scabbard (part b) and cord (part c). Sword has a double-edged blade with two crescents on either side at the hilt end. Hilt is covered with brown leather decorated on each side with a star of four intersecting lines on one side and two n's on other side. Pommel is decorated with brass and steel caps superimposed on each other. Grip is covered with black leather. Scabbard is brown leather stretched and sewn over a wood frame with two brown leather rectangular straps. There are two tin bands at either end wrapped around and decorated with excised star and punched dots to make a stippled line around all edges. Chape of scabbard is tan leather and edged with tin. Cord of red and green wool with a tassel at either end is braided over a central core and knotted to the straps.

Culture
Nupe ?
Material
steel metal, leather skin, wool fibre and wood
Made in
Kano, Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureEg136

Shrine with three standing figures all enclosed within a broad arch surmounted by a monster head. Male in centre flanked by two smaller females to both sides. Above head of male is a five-headed cobra canopy formed by the hood. Narrow rectangular base rests on four feet. Two square platforms project from base front at either end.

Culture
South India
Material
bronze metal
Made in
India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceAa161

Three strands of twisted brown sinew with ten pieces of wood of varied length attached by tangled brown leather thongs. Some of the wooden pieces are hollowed and strung like beads, others are merely tied on. The opposite end of the sinews are attached by a leather cord to an incised hollow baton of light-coloured wood through a single hole drilled at its top.

Culture
Khoisan ?
Material
sinew, leather skin and wood
Made in
Okavango Swamps, Botswana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureEf337

Male crawling with a ball in his hand on the left and another object under his hand on the right. He wears a feather styled crown and has additional feather-like projections from both shoulders. Red and dark patches of paint(?) on head, crown, and chest.

Culture
Indian: Northern Indian and Indian: Central Indian
Material
bronze metal and paint ?
Made in
India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureEf336

Male standing on an octagonal base. The hair is long and coiled on top of the head. He has a full moustache and beard that is knotted at the end. He wears an animal skin, paws and head intact, belted by a cord at the waist. His sandals have a toe piece and platformed soles. The grasping position of both hands would indicate they may have held objects now missing.

Culture
Indian: Northern Indian and Indian: Central Indian
Material
bronze metal
Made in
India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureEg98

Rat on a rectangular base that also has a platform attached to its back. Rat is highly decorated with incisions. Three sides of the platform are raised, the inside surface has engraved floral designs, and there are two small rectangular holes at one end.

Culture
South India
Material
brass metal
Made in
India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureEg95

Sculpture of Shiva. Male with four arms dancing in an ring of flames; stands with left leg on back of a small demon figure; leg on the right raised in front of other leg, knee bent. Upper hand on left holds a kettle drum and the upper hand to the right presents a flame. The lower hand at left is held in the abhayamudra gesture with the wrist encircled by a serpent. The lower hand to the right has wrist bent across the body pointing down to the leg. Supported on a low rectangular pedestal on a lotus base.

Culture
South India
Material
bronze metal
Made in
India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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