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ArrowC778

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
stem ?, fibre and bone
Made in
Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowC781

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
fibre, stem ? and bone
Made in
Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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AdzeC482 a-b

A carved black wood handle (part a) with a 7-shape. A black oblong stone (part b) inserts into the shorter downward angled wood, around which braided fibre is coiled.

Culture
Fijian
Material
wood, fibre and stone
Made in
Viti Levu, Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ClubC596

Dance club with a tapering horn-like shape that merges into a cylindrical handle with a square hole near the flat butt end. The club is painted with red and black geometric designs covering the surface except for the handle. There is a long bark fibre skirt tied around the club.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
wood, bark fibre and paint
Made in
Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleA6898

Rattle composed of a cedar branch bent into a circle with a crossbar, all bound with fibre. Deer hooves and small skull attached with sinew.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
fibre, sinew, bone, deer hoof and wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HookC121

A brown wood hook with a braided brown plant fibre cord.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
plant fibre and wood
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowC783

A plain cane shaft. Base and end of the shaft are wrapped with thin cane strips. The point is plain wood decorated with an 11 cm. sleeve of brown and yellow grass. The 20 cm. tip of the point has six irregular barbs and the very tip is wrapped cane strips.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
bone, stem ?, grass, wood and fibre
Made in
Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearC502

Hollow, cylindrical, bamboo shaft with designs filled in with black pigment and some areas painted red. Has a long, narrow, lance-olate leaf-shaped blunt hardwood point that is flat along one side while rounded at angles along a ridge at the other side. Some stem ? is coiled around the upper portion of the shaft. The lower portion of the shaft has a design that consists of a horizontal band with a zig zag leaf pattern and vertical lines of triangles in between curvi-linear lines.

Culture
Eastern Melanesian
Material
wood, bamboo grass, stem ?, pigment ? and paint
Made in
Pacific Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleA7293

Rounded wooden rattle composed of two complimentary parts stiched with a faint touch of red along the seam.

Culture
Gitxsan
Material
skin, wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SledA4380

Toboggan style sled made from two planks of wood. The boards are joined together with four cross-supports, evenly spaced,with a wider piece incised with five grooves at the top, front end. Twine is threaded along the sides and two leather straps are attached to the front end at the ends of one cross-support.

Culture
Dakelhne ? or Coast Salish ?
Material
fibre, leather skin, wood, metal and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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