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Arrow3081/3

Arrow has long wooden shaft, tapering slightly and reddening toward nock. Fletching is attached to shaft with a thick thread at top, and sinew at bottom. At tip, the point is sunk into the wood and secured with wrapped sinew. The point is cast in copper, cylindrical in shape, with incised circles and diagonal lines along its length. The tip has 4 outward barbs surrounding the central point.

Culture
Tlingit ?
Material
wood, feather, sinew, copper metal and fibre
Made in
Alaska, USA ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Arrow3081/2 a-b

Arrow with long wooden shaft (part a), tapering slightly and reddening toward nock. Fletching is attached to shaft with wrapped thread at feather tops and sinew at bottoms. At opposite end, a long, thin bone shaft (part b) is sunk into the wood and secured with wrapped sinew. The point head sits in a notch in the bone, and is cast in copper with serrations along the barb bottoms.

Culture
Tlingit ?
Material
wood, bone, feather, sinew, copper metal and fibre
Made in
Alaska, USA ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Arrow3081/1 a-b

Arrow with a long wooden shaft (part a), tapering slightly and reddening toward nock. Fletching is attached to shaft with wrapped thread and sinew at feather tops and sinew at bottoms. At the opposite end a long, thin bone shaft (part b) with notching along its length is sunk into the wood and secured with wrapped sinew. The point head is cast in copper with serrations along the barb bottoms and is nailed to the bone.

Culture
Tlingit ?
Material
wood, bone, feather, sinew, copper metal and fibre
Made in
Alaska, USA ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Spear2948/167

Wood and bamboo spear. The long wooden head has four tiers with carved lines encircling the top three at the base. It is inserted into a bamboo shaft, bound with criss-crossing rattan and beeswax. A thin line is scratched around the top of the shaft three times. The bamboo’s nodules have been shaved smooth.

Culture
Asmat
Material
bamboo grass, wood, rattan, resin and bee wax ?
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure of a Navajo04.297.5301

Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund

Culture
She-we-na
Material
clay and pigment
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Food Bowl (I-to-nak-kia-sa-lai)04.297.5298

Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund

Culture
She-we-na
Material
clay and pigment
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Bear Headdress3046/1

Painted bear headdress. The head is wide and slightly rounded, with large wedge-shaped ears on top outer edges splaying slightly to either side. A carved line emphasizes the forehead and head top, which are painted black. Eyes are red and white, surrounded by green, backed by carved red rectangles. The black and natural brown snout is wide, tapering toward the nose where carved nostrils are painted red. The bared teeth are square with pointed cuspids, painted white. The interior of the headdress is hollowed out. "Hank Robertson" is carved in the wood, inside.

Culture
Haisla
Material
wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket3047/1

Coiled basket is round in shape, with walls flaring from a small base toward its widest point at centre height. Shoulder slopes inward and neck stands straight. Dark brown images are woven into the basket, showing human figures interspersed with checkered squares.

Culture
Tohono O'odham ?
Material
willow wood ? or fern ?
Made in
Arizona, USA ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure of a Navajo04.297.5302

"5302" is written on piece.

Culture
She-we-na
Material
clay and pigment
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Decorated Water Bottle03.325.4757

Museum Expedition 1903, Museum Collection Fund

Culture
She-we-na
Material
clay and slip
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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