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Canoe PaddleA8171

Carved wood paddle with a long oval-shaped blade and no handle grip. Paddle is painted with a flat green paint.

Culture
Coast Salish: Saanich
Material
wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model Racing CanoeA8175 a-j

Carved model canoe (part a) with nine wooden paddles (parts b-j). The canoe is long and narrow with twenty wooden dividers inside. The ends of the canoe are raised; the stern ends in a black triangle while the bow ends in tiny black overhanging triangle. The inside of the canoe is gray. The outside of the canoe is gray with a yellow stripe along the sides and the ends and bottom painted black. The paddles are yellow with a gray diamond on the blade.

Culture
Coast Salish: Quwutsun'
Material
paint and wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bentwood BoxA7991

Bentwood box. The front is painted in black and red designs. One side has a bird-like creature in black; another side is abstract designs in black; the back is unpainted.

Culture
Gitxsan
Material
metal, paint and cedar wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Steering PaddleA7526

Large paddle with black painted designs on both sides of the somewhat triangular blade. The paddle has a wide blade with rounded corners, and a rounded shaft that flattens and spreads out into a more rectangular profile, attached to a cylindrical horizontal handle.

Culture
Haida
Material
wood, paint and lacquer
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleA7539

Painted wooden rattle composed of two complementary parts connected with small wooden pegs and sinew. Rattle painted with eye designs in black, encircled with red line designs.

Culture
Gitxsan ?
Material
wood, paint and sinew
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketC38 a-c

Black round woven basket (part a) with a big opening. Woven fibre handle has broken and fallen off in two pieces (parts b-c - see condition).

Culture
Tongan
Material
grass and fibre
Made in
Tongatapu, Tonga
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BowC1072 a-b

A very long plain brown bow (part a) with one side painted black. The string is in the form of a strip of cane (part b) with a knot at one end.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
fibre and wood
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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StaffC1290

Cylindrical, black wooden staff with one flat end and an acorn-shaped finial on the other. Rusted nails at evenly spaced intervals line one side of the staff; remnants of material stuck beneath some nails.

Culture
Oceania
Material
paint, wood and metal
Made in
Pacific Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ToyC1643

Oval-shaped wooden disc has parallel black lines covering the front and back with random parallel lines of dots in between. The disc is covered with some type of brown pigment.

Culture
Australian
Material
wood and pigment ?
Made in
Australia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BowlC986

Large, circular, shallow wooden bowl with an incised border composed of a repeating design of crescents and lines which goes all round the rim. There is a c-like shape carved in relief on the side. The design is emphasized with white pigment; the bowl has been stained with oil.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood, lime mineral and oil
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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