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Textile1046/4

Rectangular, multi-coloured silk ikat bed cover or wall hanging, backed with machine printed, floral cotton textile. On the ikat side are 25 narrow vertical stripes of seven-colour warp-face ikat designs, separated by narrower, unpatterned green, yellow, or red-purple stripes. The weft is bright pink, giving the piece an over-all rosy appearance. The machine printed cotton backing textile is predominantly red, with brown, tan and white details, and the piece is bound on all four edges with bias cut green silk textile. Several lengths of ikat textile were pieced together to achieve the desired width.

Culture
Uzbek
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre and dye
Made in
Uzbekistan ? or Afghanistan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile1046/3

Rectangular, multi-coloured silk ikat bed cover or wall hanging, backed with red, white and gray-blue machine printed cotton textile. The patterns on the ikat side are large and boldly colourful and are composed of six-colour warp-face ikat designs on three narrow vertical panels that have been stitched together to achieve the desired width. The silk weft is bright pink, giving the piece an overall rosy appearance. The cotton backing textile is loosely attached to the ikat silk with running stitches made with red thread. All edges are bound with green silk bias binding.

Culture
Uzbek
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre and dye
Made in
Uzbekistan ? or Afghanistan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile1046/2

Rectangular, multi-coloured silk ikat bed cover or wall hanging, constructed of three lengths of bright pink, white, blue-green and yellow warp-face ikat silk satin textile, seamed together vertically, and loosely quilted onto a backing of machine-printed cotton textile. The backing textile is pieced from two floral prints, one with orange and brown predominating, the other with red, yellow and brown predominating. The object is bound on all four edges with bright yellow-green silk dupioni textile, which forms a narrow edging on the front and a wider border on the back. Possibly used as a bed cover for a bride and groom.

Culture
Uzbek
Material
silk fibre, cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Uzbekistan ? or Afghanistan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ClothAf509

Rectangular cloth with a background pattern of orange and white shapes, overlaid with pattern of allover short horitontal blue bands with open holes, and large repeating graphic map of Sierra Leone, banner overhead, "Sierra Leone Independence 1961", and crossed stems of leaves below. Two selvedges have a border of unprinted cloth with some light blue dye running onto it.

Culture
West African
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Sierra Leone
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BookEd5.2327

Rectangular book with crinkled paper covers; pages have folded edges to outside; free edges and cover are bound in Japanese style with yellow thread through four holes. Cloth reinforcements at bound corners. White label printed in black and red characters on front cover for Japanese text (opening from left). Inside covers are red-brown; white scalloped 'lacy' paper on Japanese text side. Opening on right reveals English text.

Culture
Japanese
Material
mulberry paper, ink, dye, fibre, paste adhesive and paper
Made in
Tokyo, Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BookEd5.1951

Rectangular book with crinkled paper covers; pages have folded edges to outside; free edges and cover are bound in the Japanese style with yellow thread through four holes. Cloth reinforcements at bound corners. White label printed in black and red Japanese characters on front cover for Japanese text (opening from left). Inside covers red-brown and white scalloped 'lacy' paper on Japanese text side. Opened on right reveals English text.

Culture
Japanese
Material
mulberry paper, paper, ink, paste adhesive, dye and fibre
Made in
Tokyo, Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Rod PuppetIb321 a-c

Three-dimensional male humanoid puppet: large head (part b) fits into body with skirt (part a), and a control rod (part c) with a long shaft passes through the body and fits into the neck of the figure's head. The body has jointed arms, each with a long controlling rod attached. Light red face, red upturned eyes with black pupils; red lips with white protruding upper teeth. Black moustache, ring beard, eyebrows and shark tooth decoration on forehead. Short blunt nose, large ears shaped like inverted comma. Green and gold band around head ending in a tassel of red. Carved red fez shaped headdress. Gold tassel from top of fez with end of green, red and gold hanging down over straight neck length black hair. Pronounced adam's apple. Arms articulate at shoulder and elbow. Light red hands, fingers symmetrical and outstretched. Black tailored cloth jacket, front closure, no collar, pocket on right chest. Sarong with small pink flowers and grey-blue foliage on beige background.

Culture
Sundanese
Material
wood, paint, cotton fibre and fibre
Made in
Java, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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