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Drawing3396/9

Ink drawing of a figure standing in front of a chair, under a parasol on a wheeled platform. The figure is depicted in profile, holding a small dish out in front of themselves with one hand.

Culture
Gujarati
Made in
Ahmadabad, Gujarat, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3396/8

Ink drawing on a folded paper. The drawing depicts a two-headed Hindu deity seated on a lion(?) with two half-human half-bull(?) figures below, each body facing outwards, and both heads turn inwards. Beneath appear to be two small bull heads? The paper is folded in half, and then a small portion is folded over.

Culture
Gujarati
Made in
Ahmadabad, Gujarat, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3396/6

Pricked pattern design following a drawing of Ganesh. The paper is semi-opaque. The elephant deity is depicted in profile, wearing a crown, holding things in three of his four hands, and sits with his feet together. He sits on a low platform with four feet. In the upper right corner is a small mouse.

Culture
Gujarati
Made in
Ahmadabad, Gujarat, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3396/7

Ink drawings on a folded paper. The main drawing is of a Hindu deity, with head shown in profile. Deity appears to be seated on a sing beneath a tree, with a peacock(?) perched to the right. The deity has four arms, and holds things in three of their hands. Their legs are bowed, with their feet held together beneath them. On the back, a small portrait and another sketch of a deity's head in black ink, and a sketch of a place in blue ink. The paper is folded in half, and then a small portion is folded over.

Culture
Gujarati
Made in
Ahmadabad, Gujarat, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mouth Pull3353/3

Rectangular pastel drawing of two men engaged in the mouth pull game. The men are in the foreground, along the bottom edge of the paper. Both are coloured a light pink, have black hair and their eyes are closed. The man on the left side has short hair and the man on the right has long hair. Both are visible from the shoulders up and their shoulders are bare. The man on the right is facing the right side of the paper and the man on the left is facing the left side. The man on the right has his right arm wrapped around the shoulders of the man on the left, with one finger in his mouth. The man on the left is doing the same with his left arm and has a finger in the man on the right side's mouth. Above, and behind, the men is an upside down black-outlined semi-circle. The interior of it is coloured in light yellow and dark orange. Above the semi-circle is a black and white inukshuk with shades of dark brown. The background around the inukshuk is light blue and fades to a grey-blue. Above the inukshuk there are two harpoons with yellow blades and dark brown handles. The harpoons face inwards towards a dark brown, oval-shaped tool. The tool has a hole in the centre and two holes on the top and bottom with white strings(?) coming out of them. In the bottom centre of the print, in the space between the two men, the artist signature is written in pencil.

Culture
Inuit
Made in
Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada and Qamanittuaq, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3296/1

Sketches of bentwood bowl-shaped bracelet in pen, pencil and pencil crayon. Drawing is on sketch pad paper. Profile, overhead and bottom views of bracelet drawn in pen in the top right corner. Top left corner has a frontal 3/4 angle view of a bentwood bowl with curved sides and ends. Human face carved onto front and profile of a bird carved onto the side; coloured in bright orange and yellow, with pencil and pen. Pencil inscription below. Underneath, along the left side of the paper, there are overhead sketches of the bracelet done in pencil. In the middle of the page is a coloured, frontal 3/4 angle view of the bracelet . Bracelet has the same carved face on the front and bird profile on the side as the sketched bentwood bowl. Bracelet is coloured in bright orange and shaded with red, bright yellow, dark green and pen. Pencil marking points to the back left corner of sketched bracelet to show where the hinge would go. Along right side of page, next to the bracelet drawing, there are indecipherable numbers written in pencil. Below the numbers, in the bottom right corner, there is a rear 3/4 angle view of the bracelet done in pencil. Another pencil inscription above the rear angle of the bracelet, with indecipherable initials. Various pencil smudges and lines across the paper.

Culture
Haida
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3223/14

A drawing of five skulls on a one-sided piece of paper. The drawing is horizontally oriented. The top-right edge of the paper is cut into a concave curve; the bottom-right edge is cut at a forty-five degree angle. The background of the drawing is decorated with crisscrossing assemblages of line patterns of varying lengths and thicknesses. There are two parallel orange lines extending horizontally from the very left skull to the right edge of the paper; all of the line assemblages above the parallel lines are drawn in orange ink, below the lines are both orange and yellow assemblages. In the foreground, five human skulls are drawn in a row; the skulls are outlined in dark green ink, the interior space is white, and the eye sockets and nasal cavities are decorated with crisscrossing green line patterns. The reverse-side of the paper is blank.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hupacasaht
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3223/6

A vertically oriented drawing on a single-sided piece of paper. At the top of the page is a decorated crescent-shaped being with eyes, a mouth, and a curled nose. A small coastal mountain scene is drawn below. Under the mountain scene, in the middle section of the page, are six human-like figures, and a human skull. The human-like figures all have their hands in the air, their hair is drawn upwards suggesting that they are moving in a downward direction, and they all have circular eyes and mouths. The largest human-like figure is embellished with male genitalia. The skull, larger than any of the human-like figures, is positioned horizontally in the centre of the page. At the very bottom of the page is a decorated thunderbird(?) with a human-like left hand and an arrow extending outwards from its mouth. The reverse-side of the page is blank.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hupacasaht
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3223/4

A drawing on a blue-grey coloured bookmark. The front-side of the bookmark is a hand-drawn image of a killer whale with an exaggerated body that extends around the head of the whale to the top edge of the bookmark. Above the head is the whale's dorsal(?) fin; at the very top of the bookmark is the whale's tail. The dorsal fin is decorated with three creatures, all with eye-shapes and teeth. Two human skulls are drawn on the whale, one on the whale's head and the other between the tail flukes. The whale's tongue extends outwards towards the left edge of the bookmark. An inverted lightning serpent(?) is drawn at the bottom of the bookmark; the head of the serpent is decorated with abstract shapes, a crisscross pattern, and stars. A human skull is drawn within the curve of the serpent's body. The reverse-side of the bookmark is machine-printed in black ink with information for an "I.Con II" conference, including dates, location, etc.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hupacasaht
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3223/2

A pencil drawing on a diamond-shaped piece of white paper. The front-side of the paper is a hand-drawn image of a thunderbird, set against a white background with seven small grey stars. Drawn above the head of the thunderbird is a large diamond-shaped star with a trail of dashes suggesting that it is a shooting star. Two rounded feathers(?) sit atop the bird's head. A circular eye is surrounded by a teardrop-like shape. The beak is decorated with a tower-shape in an arch, and circular ovoid. A waving arrow extends from the mouth of the bird. A line of wide rounded zigzags, starting at the base of the bird's head, descends into a talon(?) decorated with a horizontally positioned oval with a cross. A wing, extending from the torso, is embellished with a creature with teeth and an eye-shape(?), an inverted tower-shape, and two shallow crescents.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Hupacasaht
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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