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NecklaceC62

Alternating groups of red and white beads on brown fibre. White coloured disk-like shell with a toothed edge hangs as a pendant and is accented by a large blue coloured bead.

Culture
I-Kiribati
Material
glass, shell and plant fibre
Made in
Nonouti, Gilbert Group, Kiribati
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BagC1200 b

Woven, nettle fibre bag (bilum) rectangular in shape with a short, woven handle. The bag is detailed on the surface with a geometric pattern in green and purple on natural ground. The reverse side is undecorated.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
nettle fibre and dye
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BagC1200 c

Woven, fibre bag (bilum) in a rounded, rectangular shape with a short, woven handle. Thin bands of colour across one side of the bag in red, blue, yellow, green, purple and brown. The other side is undecorated.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
plant fibre and dye
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpindleC1204

The apparatus consists of a light yellow-brown wood piece with a y-shape having two perpendicular sticks at either sides near the pointed end. This piece is connected with the fibre to a darker brown thin cylindrical piece that has a flattened rounded knob at one end and a tear-drop shaped knob at the other end with a conical base.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
bark and wood
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SkirtC1226

Skirt made of strands of grass that hang from two grass ropes at the waist and have been twisted and knotted with the long ends left loose. The skirt is dyed with two shades of brown arranged in alternating rows.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
grass and dye
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceC1228

Three strands each composed of two sections of dark brown seeds and a middle section of two long cylindrical sections of bone with four or five large seeds and a bone ring separating them.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
bird bone and seed
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BagC1317

Rectangular with one flat end and one rounded end, which forms the bottom of the bag; undecorated; loop handle of twisted rope with another rope coiled around it.

Culture
Australian
Material
grass
Made in
Richmond, New South Wales, Australia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HookC1318

Rounded wooden shaft decorated with abalone shell inlay along the inner concave curve. Bone barb secured with a twisted string. Has no leader.

Culture
Maori
Material
wood, abalone shell, fibre and bone
Made in
New Zealand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BagC992

Square woven flax bag with a vertical stripe design in yellow and dark brown; plain and plain and dark brown vertical bands of weaving create an overlapping pattern. Along the sides are thick layers of fringe. The top has two thin twisted handles.

Culture
Maori
Material
flax fibre and dye
Made in
New Zealand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BagC993

Square woven flax bag with a vertical stripe design in yellow and dark brown; weaving creates a chain pattern horizontally across the stripes. Along the sides are thick layers of fringe. The top has two thin twisted handles.

Culture
Maori
Material
flax fibre and dye
Made in
New Zealand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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