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Blowgun1327/2

Blowgun with long, cylindrical bamboo shaft and conical, slightly bulbous wooden end. Bands of incised geometric designs near ends and one third of the way along the shaft from the wooden end. Metal coiled around open end and held in place with resin. Two bands of braided plant fibre at conical end.

Culture
Southeast Asia
Material
bamboo grass, metal, wood and resin ?
Made in
Malaysia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Blowgun1327/1

Blowgun with long, cylindrical bamboo shaft and conical, slightly bulbous wooden end. Bands of incised geometric designs near ends. Metal coiled around open end and held in place with resin. Two bands of braided plant fibre at conical end.

Culture
Southeast Asia
Material
bamboo grass, metal and resin ?
Made in
Malaysia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BlowgunSe161

An extremely long wood pole which tapers slightly. There is an hour-glass shaped wood handle. Bark is coiled around the pole.

Culture
Interior Amazonia
Material
wood and bark
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BlowgunIb417

Blowgun of natural light brown wood. Wide metal lance-olate blade lashed to muzzle end with worn braided binding and five sets of rattan. Shaft tapers from mouthpiece to muzzle. 1.1 cm. wide hole at each end. Pith at centre is bored with a very small hole (slightly curved) for darts.

Culture
Punan
Material
wood, iron metal and rattan
Made in
Sarawak, Malaysia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BlowgunIb416

Blowgun of natural dark brown wood. Thin metal lance-olate blade lashed to shaft with four sets of rattan binding, the lowest one of which is wrapped around four times while the middle two are wrapped around twice and the top one is wrapped around multiple times. Muzzle is plugged with pandanus leaves. Shaft widens slightly from muzzle to butt end, where it flares to form mouthpiece. Mouthpiece slightly concave; hole at centre (0.9 cm.) edged with red wax. Pith inside hole with small hole bored through length.

Culture
Punan
Material
wood, iron metal, rattan, pandanus leaf and wax
Made in
Sarawak, Malaysia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BlowgunC1060

Black tube with red bands at both ends. Traces of light brown-gold and black linear pattern borders.

Culture
Trobriand
Material
wood and paint
Made in
Kiriwina Islands, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BlowgunB135

Blowgun with plain shaft that is covered at the open end with red cane that has been wrapped around the shaft and is interrupted by two bands of woven grass? as well as a strand of dark brown braided hair that has been wrapped and tied around the shaft. Two other thick bands of woven grass ? have come loose from the shaft. The mouthpiece is hemispherical.

Culture
Malay
Material
wood, hair, stem ? and grass ?
Made in
Malacca, Maluku, Malaysia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BlowgunB752

Plain dark finish. Long, hollow, cylindrical brown wood piece.

Culture
Western Indonesian
Material
wood
Made in
Kalimantan, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dart Blowgun3579/10

Decorated dart blowgun. Long, thin cylindrical tube wrapped with brightly coloured threads in solids or in patterns by twisting two colours together. There are ten sections, each with a background colour with solids bands at centre, or a pattern with alternating bands a centre. The sections are yellow with black bands, blue and black with green and white bands, orange with light blue bands, yellow and black pattern with pink and black bands, purple with white bands, pink and white pattern with black and white bands, blue with yellow and light blue bands, purple and white pattern with yellow and black bands, orange with white bands, and light green with black bands. There are small white feathers included at random. One end has clear adhesive tape wrapped around it.

Culture
Yekuana
Material
fibre, reed and feather
Made in
Venezuela
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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