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Ceremonial DaggerA8363

Wood dagger carved in the shape of a barbed arrow head. Cedar bark is tied to the shaft. Head of dagger is painted red while three horizontal red bands are painted on the shaft.

Culture
Nuxalk
Material
wood, fibre, cedar bark and paint
Made in
Bella Coola, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketB447

Picnic basket (part a) style of a natural colour with two bail type handles attached with metal rivets. Has a lid (part b).

Culture
Philippines
Material
stem ?, palm leaf and metal
Made in
Philippines
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SwordC409

Tapered, cylindrical, brown wood shaft that has four rows of teeth with opposing sides of equal length. Shark teeth are secured by twisted fibre string. The longer sides have fifty-three teeth while the shorter sides have twenty-two teeth. A band of triple black hair interwoven with woven palm leaf decorates the wider end of the toothed portion. Three equally spaced bands of black hair are along the length of the toothed portion.

Culture
I-Kiribati
Material
shark tooth, palm leaf, hair, fibre and wood
Made in
Nukunau, Gilbert Group, Kiribati
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SwordC413

Tapered, cylindrical, brown wood shaft that has four rows of teeth with opposing sides of equal length. Shark teeth are secured by twisted fibre string. The longer sides have thirty-eight teeth while the shorter sides have sixteen teeth. Bands of single black hair interwoven with woven palm leaf decorate both ends of the toothed portion. Three equally spaced bands of black hair are along within these interwoven bands at both ends.

Culture
I-Kiribati
Material
wood, fibre, shark tooth, hair and palm leaf
Made in
Nukunau, Gilbert Group, Kiribati
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA7957

Mask of a woman's face with a swiveling bird on top. The red-brown face has circular cut out hole eyes outlined by black and surrounded by a white tapering oval with black brows above and a vertical ridge in between up to the black hairline. The nostrils are cut out as is the open white mouth. The cheeks are painted with a pair of black u forms. The bird on top has black tapering oval eyes surrounded by a plain carved tapering oval with a black head, a red-brown beak and body, and brown fur for the wings. The bird is perched on white feathers. Skin strips are tied around the back at the top and at either side with mulit-coloured patterned cloth and a wood stick.

Culture
Gitxsan
Material
wood, fibre, feather, bear skin, skin and paint
Made in
Kitsegukla, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowC909

A plain shaft with a long wood point in the shape of multiple stacked cones. The point has four 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
fibre, wood and stem ?
Made in
Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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WhistleA4099

Brown wood whistle that is square in cross section and comes to a tapering end and is bound in three sections with brown twine, one around the wider end and two near the middle. While the wider end is solid, there is a hollow through the smaller end where there is a taper cut rectangular hole nearby on one side.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood and fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hunting EquipmentA2.536 a-c

Hide bow cover (part a), arrow quiver (part b) and bait container (part c). Plain bow cover and quiver with attached bait pouch and bone toggles; one toggle is carved with simple geometric designs.

Culture
Inuit: Inuinnait
Material
caribou skin, bone and sinew
Made in
Coppermine, Nunavut, Canada and Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowC771

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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WhistleA4224

Brown double reed whistle that is rectangular in cross section and tapers at both ends and is bound in three sections with rown string, one near each end and one near the middle. One end has two hollows through it where there is a taper cut semi-oval hole nearby at either side, one of which is closer to the end while the other one of which is closer to the middle. Seams sealed with pitch.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, fibre and resin
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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