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OrnamentC568

Three boar tusk pieces, almost completely circular in shape. A bunch of bark strips of green and brown are looped around the tusks.

Culture
Fijian
Material
bark and boar tusk
Made in
Vanua Levu, Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowC813

The shaft is plain except for small dark markings of chevrons at the base, near the pointed end. The base of the shaft is wrapped with thin cane strip. The point is plain wood decorated with a 11 cm. sleeve of red and brown grass. The 21 cm. tip of the point has six irregular barbs, and the tip is wrapped with cane strip.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
stem ?, wood, grass and bone
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowC818

The shaft is of plain cane. The base and the end of the shaft are wrapped with thin cane strips. The point is plain wood decorated with an 8 cm. sleeve of brown and yellow grass. The 19 cm. tip of the point has seven irregular barbs, and the very tip is wrapped with cane strip.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
stem ?, wood, grass and bone
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model CanoeC829

Long thin canoe with one outrigger, and four paddles lashed to the beams connecting the hull to the outrigger. Very simple black vertical line decoration on canoe top.

Culture
Sikaiana
Material
wood, paint and fibre
Made in
Sikaiana, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model HouseC893 a-b

Model house in two parts: the base (a) consists of a raised floor made from wooden slats on a frame with four posts, each with a groove in the top, and it is all lashed together with twined plant fibre; the roof (b) is a plain gable roof composed of a wooden frame lashed together with off-white string, covered on the outside with layers of palm leaves, and finished along the peak with palm leaves that have been folded over and are held with thin strips of wood woven through slits in the palm leaves.

Culture
Samoan
Material
plant fibre, palm leaf and wood
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowC906

A plain shaft with a long wood point in the shape of multiple stacked cones. The shaft is wrapped with fibre around the upper end and has a pair of triple grooved horizontal lines around the lower end. The point has six stacked cones progressing shorter toward the top with the one at the tip being of the medium size and a horizontal row of diagonal grooved lines around the base.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
stem ?, fibre and wood
Made in
Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleA5257

Rounded wooden rattle composed of two complementary parts connected with wooden pegs and animal sinew. Smooth, unpainted surface. Bone ring around the base of the handle.

Culture
Tsimshian ?
Material
bone, sinew and wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowC774

A shaft carved with dark vertically linear designs above the second cane joint from the end. Shaft is bound at the end and the base with red and natural cane fibre. The arrow point is multi-barbed with carved splinters of bone which are attached by cane fibre wrapping to the point. The end of the shaft is notched.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
bone, fibre and stem ?
Made in
Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowC775

A shaft that has dark vertically linear designs above the first, second, and third cane joints from the end. Part of the arrow point is unwrapped and hard wood is exposed while the rest of the point is multi-barbed with carved splinters of bone attached by cane fibre wrapping to the point. The end of the shaft is notched and wrapped at the end and the base with cane fibre.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
stem ?, fibre and bone
Made in
Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowC776

A plain cane shaft. Base and end of the shaft are wrapped with thin cane strips. The point is plain wood decorated with a 7 cm. sleeve of red-brown and yellow grass. The 22 cm. tip of the point has seven irregular barbs and the very tip is wrapped with cane strip.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
stem ?, grass, bone, wood and fibre
Made in
Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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