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ArrowIe352

An arrow shaft, 62.5 cm. long, made of a variety of pitpit or sword grass. The shaft has black coating. The round foreshaft of black palm wood is 25.5 cm.long between bindings. Bound at the insertion into the shaft, there is a sleeve of woven rattan 2 cm. wide and to the point with a band of bark cord 5.5 cm. wide. The palm wood is bound with a narrow sleeve of woven rattan less than 1 cm. wide. The foreshaft is also bound with a narrow sleeve of woven rattan. The bark cord band is coated with grey clay. The point is a solid round bone projection 12.5 cm. beyond the binding and coated with a black substance.

Culture
Kewa
Material
bone, bark, resin, clay, ochre pigment, palm wood, rattan and sword grass
Made in
Iapi, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeaddressIe345

A rounded knitted headdress drawn in around the edges on a string. Top has a rounded rectangular panel, 19 x 17 cm, knitted in a ribbed pattern. Ribs have been coloured red and white with ochre and clay.

Culture
Kewa
Material
ochre pigment, clay and bark
Made in
Koiari, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleIe327 a-e

A rattle made of four tubular seed pods (parts b-e), each about 31 cm. Long with a 2 cm. diameter, dark brown and loosely bound together with coarse plant fibre cord ( part a). The tubes have seeds inside. The end of one tube (part b) is plugged with plant fibre like the cord, the end of the next tube (part c) is plugged with white plant pulp while the end of another tube (part d) is plugged with soft brown paper (?), and the end of the last tube (part e) is plugged with paper(?) at one end and plant fibre or bark at the other.

Culture
Kewa
Material
bark ?, paper ?, plant, seed, plant fibre and pod
Made in
Koiari, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowIe306

An arrow shaft, 83 cm. long, made of a variety of pitpit (sword grass). The shaft is light brown with black coating. The fore-shaft is a flat length of black palm wood, 10.5 cm. long, bound to the shaft with a sleeve of woven rattan 1.5 cm. wide and to the point with a band of bark cord 11 cm. wide. The fore-shaft is also bound with a band of woven rattan less than 1 cm. wide. The bark cord band is coated with red ochre and has a rough stripe of grey clay on each side. The long point is of solid bone, 17 cm. long, also coated with a black substance.

Culture
Kewa
Material
fibre, rattan, ochre pigment, black palm wood, bark and bone
Made in
Iapi, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowIe304

An arrow shaft, 88 cm. long, made of a variety of pitpit (sword grass). Light brown near the fore-shaft is darkening to black at the butt due to a black coating. The fore-shaft of black palm wood, 18 cm. long, is inserted into the shaft and bound with a woven sleeve of rattan 1.5 cm. wide. The fore-shaft is incised with dots and zigzag lines. The long point is made of solid bone, protruding 6.5 cm. beyond the fore-shaft and bound to it with a band of bark cord 10 cm. wide and a sleeve of woven rattan 1.5 cm. wide coated with red and yellow ? ochre.

Culture
Kewa
Material
rattan, bone, grass, black palm wood, resin, ochre pigment and bark
Made in
Iapi, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NeedleSf1024

Large metal needle with a lenticular eye at one end and a flattened point at the other end. A cross section of the shaft is roughly circular. The shaft has a number of bumps and bows. The surface is only roughly finished with scrapes and dents visible to the naked eye. The surface is powdered with rust. The top end of the needle eye has broken through and is now pinched closed.

Culture
Quechua
Material
metal
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NeedleSf1023

Long metal needle with a lenticular eye at one end and a flattened point at the other end. A cross section of the shaft is roughly circular. The shaft has a number of bumps and bows. The surface is only roughly finished with scrapes and dents visible to the naked eye. The surface is powdered with rust.

Culture
Quechua
Material
metal
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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PinSf1025

Long metal pin with a flattened point on one end and a circular flat head on the other. The shaft is round in cross-section, but not very straight--it has a number of bumps and bows along its length. Surface is pitted and powered with rust.

Culture
Quechua
Material
metal
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Doll Box422/21 a-v

Box (a) with painting of four children playing with dolls on lid; red calligraphy on lid and sides; floral design on sides. Box contains sheets of cut-out paper dolls (b-d), fabric doll heads on wooden sticks (e-g), cardboard dolls (h-j), rolls (k-r) and strips (s-v) of patterned crepe paper for making doll's clothes.

Culture
Japanese
Material
adhesive, paper, fibre, paint, wood and ink
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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OrnamentEdz978 a-f

Six rectangular sheets of red coloured paper, to which pieces of gold foil in irregular shapes, are affixed. Both short ends cut in zigzag pattern; paper punched in several places with irregular pattern of lines and dots.

Culture
Chinese
Made in
Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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