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Wall HangingNa1445

Roughly square, dark blue felt wall hanging covered with multicoloured embroidery and figurative felt appliqué; imagery includes hunting-like scenes and three central figures standing underneath a yellow arch. Rolled edges with white and green whipstitching. Top edge is folded over and sewn to create a loop for hanging.

Culture
Inuit
Material
wool fibre ? and fibre
Made in
Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada and Qamanittuaq, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Wall HangingNa1443

Large, rectangular, brown felt wall hanging. Eight multicoloured zoomorphic felt appliqué figures covered with multicoloured embroidery; two in the centre and three on either side. Upper edge is folded over and sewn to create a loop for hanging.

Culture
Inuit
Material
wool fibre ? and fibre
Made in
Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada and Qamanittuaq, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Wall HangingNa1442

Square, green felt wall hanging covered with embroidery and multicoloured figurative felt appliqué; various human and animal figures are represented. Rolled edges with red and yellow whipstitching. Top edge is folded over and sewn to create a loop for hanging.

Culture
Inuit
Material
wool fibre ? and fibre
Made in
Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada and Qamanittuaq, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Wall HangingNa1441

Rectangular felt wall hanging depicting scenes from the life of Jesus. Multicoloured felt appliqué figures with talk bubbles stitched in yellow, orange, and pink thread on maroon ground. Rolled edges with orange and yellow whipstitching along the sides and bottom. Top edge is folded over and sewn to create a full-length loop for hanging.

Culture
Inuit
Material
wool fibre ? and fibre
Made in
Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada and Qamanittuaq, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hanging1228/6

Long rectangular hanging constructed of wool cut pile textile. The top edge of the hanging is concave, while the bottom edge is straight and is finished with very long red and black fringes that are overlaid with a netting of brown and white braided fibre. Five large diamond-shaped designs, which are embellished with many smaller geometric motifs, are prominently displayed in the design field. The designs are worked in black and off-white on a dark red background.

Culture
Turkmen ?
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Afghanistan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Door Hanging529/1

Rectangular hanging with brown edging with a central, rectangular shaped area consisting of a black border and black calligraphy on top of a cream background. On the proper right is a line of black calligraphy, while on the proper left is a cream, elongated house shape with black calligraphy. The hanging is two pieces of fabric sewn partway together.

Culture
Japanese
Material
fibre and dye
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HangingEf422

Yellow square with embroidered patterns. Centre has eight green, red and brown mirrored and dyed parrots which face each other in pairs. Nine large, stylized, brown flowers with many petals and mirror centres and multi-coloured sprays and cones. Cones are arranged singly or in fan shaped patterns. Brown floral pattern and sprays are repeated in a wide border, defined by an inner and outer narrow border and are banded with red, green and blue. Outer edge is bordered with multi-coloured triangles topped by tridents and there are mirrors between each triangle. White-yellow backing consists of two triangles stitched together; one rectangle has a narrow woven red edge the other in blue. Hanging loops are on each corner. Some embroidery stitches pass through the backing.

Culture
Indian: Northern Indian and Indian: Central Indian
Material
cotton fibre, glass and silk fibre
Made in
Gujarat, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HangingEf421

Silk square, with a yellow centre and purple border. Centre embroidered with sixteen red, green and white peacocks and mirror-centred flowers it is bordered by mirror-centred flowers and leaves. The pattern is edged with a row of multi-coloured undulating ovoids and chevrons, embroidered with untwisted silk(?); backed with white-yellow cotton and bound with red cotton. Hanging loops present on the two lower corners.

Culture
Indian: Northern Indian and Indian: Central Indian
Material
mica mineral ?, cotton fibre and silk fibre
Made in
Gujarat, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HangingEf420

Rectangle hanging composed of one long and one short (on left side as seen) pieces of textile, with seven pentagonal leaves stitched on one long side. The background is red cotton, lined with yellow-white cotton(?). A narrow black cotton(?) band separates the rectangle and leaves. There are three hanging loops on top corners and centre. Rectangle is heavily embroidered with varying sizes of mirrors which form eight distinct unstructured patterns. On either side of the centre is a pattern: one is on an orange embroidered background and the other is on blue. A border of closely spaced mirrors, enclosed in two undulating black lines, encloses the patterns: the top and sides of the rectangle are embroidered with multi-coloured closely spaced diamonds and inverted triangles; seven mirrored and embroidered leaves are stitched to the bottom edge. Three alternate leaves are centred with a large rectangular mirror; two of which are framed in silver coloured metal and the third one with pink metal. Two of the other leaves may represent stylized peacocks, and two have unstructured mirrored patterns. Each leaf is ordered with closely spaced mirrors enclosed in two undulating black lines. Yellow embroidery thread rayon(?) is seen throughout.

Culture
Indian: Northern Indian and Indian: Central Indian
Material
cotton fibre, rayon fibre ?, metal and glass
Made in
Gujarat, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HangingEf427

Hanging consisting of a narrow, horizontal bead-worked rectangle with nine pentagonal beadwork leaves along the bottom edge. Background of opaque white beads with patterns in translucent green, red, blue and yellow beads. Rectangle has a diamond shaped foliage design alternating with a bird. The hangings alternate with patterns of a peacock and diamonds with a cow and tree; central design is a stylized human figure. Each leaf is bordered on four sides with one row of red beads and has three tassels of four bead loops in varying colours. The rectangle is backed with red textile and has five hanging loops stitched to the top edge. Beadwork attached to backing with overcast and running stitches.

Culture
Indian: Northern Indian and Indian: Central Indian
Material
synthetic fibre, cellulose and glass
Made in
Gujarat, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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