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ArrowNa1018

Wood arrow shaft with hole where arrowhead once was inserted. Notched nock end has split feather on two sides, with top and bottom bound with sinew.

Culture
Inuit
Material
feather, wood and sinew
Made in
Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Arrow PointNa1017

Small, triangular-shaped metal head with 18.1 cm. Long shaft hollowed out on back, one large gouge on front. Metal shaft inserted in wood and both bound with sinew. Top and bottom of split feather bound onto both sides of shaft's notched nock end with sinew.

Culture
Inuit
Material
feather, metal, wood and sinew
Made in
Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Arrow PointNa1016

Small, triangular leaf-shaped metal point with 9.5 cm. Long, slightly squared shaft inserted in wooden shaft, is bound with sinew.

Culture
Inuit
Material
wood, sinew and metal
Made in
Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Arrow PointNa1015

Triangular leaf-shaped metal point inserted in wooden shaft and bound in two places with sinew. 5.5 cm. Angular cut halfway up shaft has wood piece bound on with sinew in three places. Top and bottom of split feather bound onto both sides of shaft's nock end with sinew.

Culture
Inuit
Material
sinew, feather, metal and wood
Made in
Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shadow PuppetEdz1381

A shadow puppet of a Chinese man with a wrinkled face, short black hair, and a long moustache. Wearing a red hat with yellow plumes on the back and two flowers. Wearing black high cut Manchu laced boots and intricate floral robes with trousers to match. Three horn handling sticks, one at the back of the head bending downwards at a right angle, tied with black string, and one at each hand tied also with black string. Plastic rivets connect parts, shoulder, elbows, hands, waist, and hips. One boot shows completely while with the other, only the foot appears from under the long robes.

Culture
Chinese
Material
plastic, ink, paint, horn, skin and fibre
Made in
Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ContainerAj128

Fat container with leather bottom cap and straps which are connected to a ring of leather at the neck. Handle is braided cowhide with brown hair. Lid is also leather moulded onto container.

Culture
Turkana
Material
cow skin and wood
Made in
Kenya
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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PotSe153

Near spherical pot with flat base, flattened top, and a raised central ridge around the circumference. Opening with lip extends from ridge at one side; a very worn shoelace is tied through a small hole in the lip. The lower half of the pot is red, the ridge is brown, and the upper half is tan with black and brown rectilinear design; designs are in mirror image, projected around the central band, running parallel to and extending from the lip.

Culture
Shipibo
Material
clay, caraipe bark ash, resin, fibre and pigment
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Head ShaperSe149

A double layer of padding in blue checkered cotton fabric is tied to a flat rectangular piece of wood with an incised pattern on the exposed surface. A short band of blue floral material is sewn on to the cover of the top pad. A cord is wrapped around the ends of the pad, hooked into notches in the board. The incised pattern is very faint, the cuts are very shallow; the pattern is rough, rectangular in in shape, without regularity.

Culture
Shipibo
Material
cotton fibre, fibre and wood
Made in
Peru ? or Brazil ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Head ShaperSe148

Rectangular flat brown board with red pad, green and tan covering tied to it. Board is incised on the exposed side with a series of triangular notches around the edges and at centre. The pattern is a mirror image around the central point. Two notched decorations extend from the sides of this field. A thick stuffed pad covered with a floral patterned material is tied to the board with ends hooked into notches at the ends. A band of the same material is sewn to a green and tan covering and attached in a like manner.

Culture
Shipibo
Material
wood, fibre and cotton fibre
Made in
Peru ? or Brazil ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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OrnamentSe141

Rectangular band of woven cloth; one end sewn finished, the other ends in several green and brown twisted strands with shell noisemakers. The band is made of three parts: a central band of complex geometric weaving in green and brown in the supplementary weft, and edged with thin brown, green and pink bands. The noisemakers are halved shells of nuts or seeds.

Culture
Shipibo
Material
cotton fibre, metal, shell, glass, seed and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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