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Spear2948/153

Long spear with carved bone head. The edges of the head have four barbs each, staggered, along the sides. Head is bound to a narrow wooden shaft with string and wax. The convex side has remnants of a light green dye over the middle half of the head. The wooden shaft is carved into diagonal patterns filled with lime. It is inserted into a slightly larger bamboo shaft and bound with rattan and wax. The shaft has been thinly shaved towards the join and a few thin lines have been scratched around the shaft just below this. The nodules have been shaved smooth.

Culture
Asmat
Material
bamboo grass, wood, bone, plant fibre, rattan, bee wax ?, ochre pigment and lime pigment
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headdress Ornament2948/123

Golden, bronze and chocolate-brown cassowary feathers are attached at the base to a cone of bees wax adorned with coix seeds. The base of the feathers emerge from the point of the cone and are tied together with sago leaf fibres and bast string which are attached to a 7cm-long thin, pointed piece of wood.

Culture
Asmat
Material
cassowary feather, seed, bee wax, plant fibre, sago fibre and wood
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headdress2948/122

Headdress made of Bird of Paradise feathers, ranging in colour from gold through bronze to dark brown, each tied to a braided band of cotton. The base of the feathers are squeezed together in sets of approximately 20 and folded over the bottom string and through two loops at the back of the braid. The braid ends in a loop on the left and a tie on the right with a small knot at the end.

Culture
Asmat
Material
feather and cotton fibre ?
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headdress Ornament2948/120

Ornament made of the feature feathers of a Bird of Paradise, as well its breast feathers, still attached to the skin. Two sets of long, fine, light brown feathers hang from the skin of the throat, which is covered in shorter, dark brown feathers. The bird’s lower beak is folded over and resting within a cavity between the sets of feathers.

Culture
Asmat
Material
feather, bird skin and beak
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Penis Sheath2948/119 a-b

Penis sheath made of a straight bottle gourd. ‘Part a’ has pin-prick dots burned to form vertical and horizontal ‘lines’ on the bottom half. A band of bees wax encircles the sheath above this patterning over the top of a clean break, connecting it to the section above which is lighter in colour and without pattern. The top section (part b) has broken off, around which is a woven band of ruddy-brown rattan fibre placed near the opening. Yellow nylon fishing line is attached to the band.

Culture
Asmat
Material
gourd fruit and plant fibre
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Penis Sheath2948/118

Penis sheath. A curving, tapering bottle gourd. The thinner end is sealed.

Culture
Asmat
Material
gourd fruit
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Penis Sheath2948/117 a-b

Penis sheath. An unadorned bottle gourd, wide at open end, with a flat knob at the opposite thin end. Part b is a large chip taken out of the top rim of the sheath. Adjacent to this hole is a broken but attached flap of gourd.

Culture
Asmat
Material
gourd fruit
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Penis Sheath2948/116

Penis sheath. A slightly curved, undecorated bottle gourd.

Culture
Asmat
Material
gourd fruit
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Penis Sheath2948/115

Penis sheath made of a curving, unadorned bottle gourd, with scorch marks in spots along the surface. The gourd is cracked at the wide, open end with one edge overlapping the other.

Culture
Asmat
Material
gourd fruit
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Penis Sheath2948/114

Penis sheath. A conical bottle gourd has been broken at the open end and folded inward to create an opening that fits inside a thick, woven loop of rattan. Two white strings have been woven into and around the band, and a synthetic line with several knots is attached at one end. A whitish paper-like fibre has been stuffed inside.

Culture
Asmat
Material
gourd fruit, plant fibre and plastic
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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