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ArmbandEd1.297 a-b

Pair of arm bands for the lower arm shaped like cylinders tapering to the wrist. Arm bands are made of parallel lengths of bamboo with a circle of rubber inserted through holes in the bamboo lengths at each end, onto which are threaded bamboo cylinders that serve as spacers between the ends of the lengths of bamboo.

Culture
Korean
Material
bamboo grass and rubber
Made in
Korea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArmbandEd1.296 a-b

Pair of cylindrical armbands for the lower arm, made by interlacing lengths of rattan to form figure 8 shapes parallel to the length of the cylinder. The shapes are attached to each other with wrapping made of rattan skin. Each cylinder ends in a double circle of rattan at the narrower end of the cylinder, and a single circle at the wider end. The circles are covered with wrapping of rattan skin, which also attaches the ends of the figure 8s to the circles.

Culture
Korean
Material
rattan
Made in
Korea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArmbandEd1.295 a-b

Pair of cylindrical openwork arm bands for the lower arm, tapering slightly to wrist. Arm bands are made of lengths of rattan parallel to the length of the arm interlaced diagonally in a very open weave, and ending in a double circle at each end covered in interlaced wrapping of smooth strips of a white material.

Culture
Korean
Material
rattan, bark ? and grass ?
Made in
Korea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArmbandIe406

A woven band of rattan with two fibre flaps at the front top, and two below. Small cowrie shells edge the front and form arches around a wide stripe of shells in the middle. The woven spaces in between are coloured brown and red-brown. The back is undecorated. The ring-shaped armband is somewhat flattened.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
pigment, fibre, rattan and cowrie shell
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArmbandIe430

A small flat armband with a bark base and woven on the outside with thin brown and yellow bamboo strips with a checkered and zigzag design around the band. The inner side has vertical stripes of thin brown bamboo. One side has red dye from the middle to the edge between the bamboo elements.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
bamboo grass and bark
Made in
Mogulu, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArmbandIe429

A wide flat armband with a bark base and tied with white fibre on one side. Woven with thin brown and yellow thin strips of bamboo with diamond-shaped, checkered, and zigzag designs around the band. The inner part has only vertical strips of thin brown bamboo.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
bamboo grass, fibre and bark
Made in
Mogulu, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArmbandD2.20 a-b

Large beaded armband composed of two pieces of hide laced together with thong ties. Beading has a white background with three arrow-like designs in blue, red, and mauve; blue border at the top and bottom. Thong laces along one edge, with corresponding holes along opposite edge.

Culture
Plains
Material
glass and skin
Made in
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArmbandD2.50 a-b

Two leather armbands (parts a and b) decorated with semi-rounded circular metal studs.

Culture
Plains
Material
leather skin and brass metal
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArmbandC265

Sections of red and white beads with half-shells attached as bangles. All attached to a braided band.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
nutshell, glass and fibre
Made in
New Georgia, Western, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArmbandC237

Beaded armband with red diamond and blue triangle pattern, outlined with white, all on a fibre base.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
glass and plant fibre
Made in
Roviana Lagoon, New Georgia, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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