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Altered CoinEdz2239

Round coin with a four-sided hole in the centre, and a rim around the outer edge and the centre hole. The obverse has four characters, and the reverse has four characters. Jiaqing tongbao (top-bottom-right-left) in Chinese characters are on the obverse; qianlong tongbao (top-bottom-right-left) in Chinese characters are on the reverse. Three coins joined together; three holes drilled and rivets applied; rim filed down at an angle.

Culture
Chinese
Material
iron metal and brass metal
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BoxEf270

Box made entirely of silver with a hinged lid and shallow hinged false bottom. The box is rectangular with sides that have pierced parrot and floral designs and bevelled edges on the lid and base. The lid snaps into place via a small knob with a catch.

Culture
Indian: Northern Indian and Indian: Central Indian
Material
silver metal
Made in
India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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PouchIe411

Brown conical bag of woven string with a strap of the same material; several red threads are used in the bag near the rim. A jumble of thirty-seven sea shells, many fragmentary, are pierced and attached to the bag, either encircling the strap or attached to the rim by string.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
fibre, shell and dye
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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OrnamentIe410

An ornament of three woven strips hanging from a wood crosspiece. Pendants at the bottom of the strips and a strap at the top are also woven while the two prongs above the wood rod are rattan. All borders are edged with small cowrie shells and two larger white cowrie shells tip the rod ends. The material is dyed purple and green on the front. The back is a natural brown.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
dye, rattan, fibre, wood, cowrie shell and hemp fibre ?
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Arm OrnamentIe407

An ornament of four white and brown boar's tusks pierced at both ends with a brown fibre strap tied on.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
fibre and boar tusk
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArmbandIe406

A woven band of rattan with two fibre flaps at the front top, and two below. Small cowrie shells edge the front and form arches around a wide stripe of shells in the middle. The woven spaces in between are coloured brown and red-brown. The back is undecorated. The ring-shaped armband is somewhat flattened.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
pigment, fibre, rattan and cowrie shell
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Stringed Musical InstrumentAf500 a-b

Gourd harp-like instrument. Forked piece of branch (part b), with a straight section of equal length to that of the forks, and with a stick going across the top creating a triangular frame. One side has nine holes pierced through by burning. Five grass strings are tied into five of them and go to the opposite side and wind around the stick. Piece of cord around unpierced end. Separated from frame is half of a brown-yellow gourd (part a), of which the top centre has four pierced holes on it with cracks around them, and grass going through two holes at the base of the gourd.

Culture
West African
Material
gourd fruit, wood and grass
Made in
Liberia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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OrnamentIe404

Large crescent-shaped shell which is pierced at both ends where it attaches to a fibre strap. The shell has a 'mother-of-pearl' appearance underneath, and yellowed on top. The top has some natural holes, two distinctively side by side. The strap is of halves; the knot at the end of one passes through the loop of the other. The fibre is brown and decorated with cowrie shells on the lower parts.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
shell, fibre and cowrie shell
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearIe403 a-b

Spear (a) with sheath (b). Spear (a) has a long steel lanceolate-shaped blade, shiny with some tarnish and etched lines echoing its shape. Blade is connected to a shaft by a corroded metal fitting. The shaft appears to be a broom handle wrapped with bark. At one end the bark has uncoiled. The black sheath (b) is two pieces of wood held together by five bands of metal wrapped and beaten together. Nose and eye shapes are incised into the wood to achieve a bird-like face. The narrow end is carved with a geometric design.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
metal, bark, wood and steel metal
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BeltIe401

A wide flat coiled bark belt with a pattern incised into the outside surface of the outer coil. The inside coil is entirely unadorned. The curvilinear pattern has human faces within the rounded borders of both ends. Lime white accents the pattern. Fibre and string run through a series of holes in one area. The belt ends are tongue-shaped.

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