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Rod PuppetIb286 a-c

Three-dimensional male puppet: large head (part b) fits into body with shirt and skirt (part a), and a control rod (part c) with a long shaft passes through the body and fits into the neck of the figure's head. The body has jointed arms, each with a long controlling rod attached. The figure's left arm is not jointed at elbow and the fingers of the hand are held flat with the hand bent back. The figure's pink face looks upwards and has white eyes with red irises, also looking up, and red lips. Hair, sideburns, beard, and facial details are painted in black. Red round cap with diadem (jamang), and long sumping, black hairnet. Blue, white, and red curved decoration at crown. Slim torso with wide shoulders. Pink arms. Arm to figure's right has a red bracelet at wrist, and the hand is clenched with an extended thumb. Beige cotton top of two different textures (arms finer than torso). Five cloth buttons on chest, three at centre (red, green, beige) and two near shoulders (green to the figure's left, and to the figure's right is an unravelled button with a semi-transparent blue fabric over a yellow, red, black and white fabric). Skirt of plaid cotton in green, red, and yellow.

Culture
Sundanese
Material
cotton fibre, paint, fibre and wood
Made in
Java, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TextileSf833

A piece of red slit tapestry with parts of three frontal humans in horizontal row. They are yellow, red, black and white but in varying proportions. They wear an elaborate headdress and a flaring tunic. Feet are splayed and arms and hands are raised. Yellow and black stripes with an interlocking red spiral make up the border on two sides. Parts of three finished edges are present.

Culture
Andes
Material
cotton fibre, alpaca wool fibre and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HatbandNe213

Red beads woven flat with geometric square and arrow point motif evenly-spaced at intervals along length. Pattern alternates between pink bordering green and pink bordering blue. Woven length joined to a medallion by passing underneath its hide backing. Medallion is circular hide piece entirely covered with single-coloured strands of beads sewn in concentric rows. Moving to centre, borders of red, blue and green alternate with rows of pink. Edging in red bead pattern.

Culture
Plains Cree
Material
glass, skin and cotton fibre
Made in
Saskatchewan, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceNe212

White beads woven flat with two alternating geometric motifs evenly spaced, repeated at intervals down length; one is green bordering yellow, the other is dark blue bordering red. To finish off, ends with last two rows light blue are woven together. Then warps individually strung with white then blue beads; all brought through large pink bead and ended in two looped white and light blue strands.

Culture
Plains Cree
Material
glass and cotton fibre
Made in
Saskatchewan, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Rod PuppetIb285 a-c

Three-dimensional male puppet: large head (part b) fits into body with tunic (part a), and a control rod (part c) with a long shaft passes through the body and fits into the neck of the figure's head. The body has jointed arms, each with a long controlling rod attached. Figure has a pink face with red irises, and lips. Hair, moustache, beard and facial detail in black. Triangular, upturned nose, and small white upper teeth. Red cap with carved representation of wound cloth in three coils of white, light and dark green, with vertical black stripes. Hanging ends of coil behind each ear. Wide shoulders, slim torso, very long pink arms with pink ornaments at wrists. Fingers held flat, hand bent back at wrist. Body clothed in single beige garment with wide yoke collar.

Culture
Sundanese
Material
wood, fibre, paint and cotton fibre
Made in
Java, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Key HolderEd1.105

A chatelaine with a central flat rectangular panel of perforated brass with a raised design of nine coins at the centre with another above, flowers around the edges, two butterflies at either sides in between the top row of three coins, and the coin above, and two dragons at either sides on the top. The coins have various designs including fish, humans, birds, and animals. Strung on two double cords of yellow silk, each cord of which is then strung with a brass coin-like medal, ending in a red, orange, yellow, and green silk knot with five tassels. Five varied-coloured multiple-layered ribbons are also strung with medals at the bottom corners, and at the bottom centre, each decorated with five fabric flowers. Paint in some indentations.

Culture
Korean
Material
brass metal, paint, silver metal ?, cotton fibre, paper and silk fibre
Made in
Korea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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PantsCb83

Man's wide, drawstring cotton pants with cuffs and embroidered design. The pants are made from woven strips seamed together. The front and back are very wide and seamed at sides and across the bottom leaving the corners open and gathered into two cuffs. The cuffs are green and red striped, with the occasional wide yellow stripe. The top edge is turned over to form an easing for a drawstring. The lower front of the legs are embroidered in red, green, blue, yellow, pink, in a complex interlocking design.

Culture
Hausa
Material
dye and cotton fibre
Made in
Kano, Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TextileEdz1000

White, blue-grey, red and black embroidered cranes, and white and grey cloud forms on black background. A border of blue cotton has been sewn on. The pattern of the border is thin is spots where brown paper shows through the fabric. The entire piece is backed by a piece of cotton with a fan and screen design in light white-brown and blue.

Culture
Chinese
Material
silk fibre, cotton fibre and paper
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ShoesEdz996 a-b

A pair (parts a-b) of shoes for bound feet. The soles of each shoe are made of white cotton fabric, and the thick arch, and heel, in one piece, are of the same fabric over wood(?) lined with finer white fabric. The outer surface, except for the sole, is covered with silk. The lower part is made of light blue-green silk with embroidery consisting of multi-toned pink flowers, and butterflies. The upper part is made of red silk, trimmed with black silk, and multi-coloured silk braid. At the front, there is lattice pattern of pink silk. The body of the shoe has several layers of stiffened fabric.

Culture
Chinese
Material
silk fibre, cotton fibre and wood ?
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ShirtSf883

Large padded shirt with sleeves; medium brown with deep borders and stepped yoke brocaded in several shades of yellow, red, brown with accents of white, black and green. Layered fringes on lower and sleeve edges as well as yoke. Major motif is a seated, zoomorphic figure with headdress and a staff which is repeated in all brocaded areas; bordered by a symmetrical series of stripes including a wider red stripe with profile birds in many colours. Shirt is entirely lined with light brown cotton, sandwiching a cotton batting throughout. One large hole and considerable discolouration from organic deterioration. S-spun single warps (cotton); s and z-spun wefts (cotton); z-spun, 2 plied s (camelid-alpaca ?).

Culture
Andes
Material
alpaca wool fibre ? and cotton fibre
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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