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Camel Bag2790/29

Fringed camel bag with deep side pockets. Hemp-like fibres in shades of orange, red, brown, green and blue are woven into thick stripes and triangles outlined in white. Along the sides and tops of the pockets is a border made of orange strands, looped around multicoloured rag filler. Bundles of twined strands hang from the top, middle and bottom of pockets.

Culture
African ?
Material
cotton fibre, grass and dye
Made in
Africa ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shawl2790/28

Large, heavy shawl with needle work paisley pattern. The craftsmanship of the red, blue, green, black, yellow and ivory design is less fine in the wide border. In the centre is a circular area of plain black fabric onto which is emboridered the numbers 22 CO 37 in ivory coloured thread. Other numbers (23222 and 949) are embroidered near two different corners.

Culture
Kashmiri
Material
cotton fibre and wool fibre ?
Made in
Kashmir, India ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fertility Figure2790/27

Fertility figure (akuaba) with a flat, disc-shaped head. High oval forehead, curved upraised brows, small horizontal oval eyes with a horizontal slit along the middle, a long vertical nose, and a small mouth at the bottom of the face. The arms are truncated off with small pointed breasts below. The lower half of the body is somewhat cylindrical with a flat back and widens slightly to an oval base at the bottom.

Culture
Asante
Material
stain and wood
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Gourd Rattle2790/23

Unworked gourd with bumpy surface has one globular end and the other end long and narrow like a handle. Dried seeds inside the gourd rattle when shaken.

Culture
Southern African ?
Material
gourd fruit
Made in
Southern Africa, Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Neck Ring2790/21

Part of a necklace ? or headdress ? composed of pieces of metal welded into a tiara-like form. Two rods of copper and one of brass are curve upwards from the centre to several joined cylindrical brass beads at the sides. Two brass buttons and three round brass beads are soldered to the rods at the centre.

Culture
Ndebele ?
Material
brass metal and copper metal
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Doll2790/20

Female stuffed doll in a bead decorated black coat and red skirt stands on rectangular wood feet. The head is a stuffed and painted piece of canvas with a painted mop-like trim sewn on around the top. A piece of cow hide with hair is wrapped around her shoulders, as are strands of black and white beads and seeds. In her hand, she holds a white hair brush with bead worked base. The legs appear to be wood are covered with a black fabric.

Culture
Ndebele ?
Material
hair, cotton fibre, synthetic fibre, wood, glass ?, seed, metal and skin
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mask2792/1

Dance mask worn with dance costume (2792/2 a-b). The carved wood male face has life-like features that include glass brown eyes, long upper eyelashes of blonde hair, and painted flesh tone skin, gold teeth, curly gold hair and sideburns, mustache, eyebrows and lower eyelashes. There is a slit opening at the mouth and several holes have been drilled through the surface; the two nostrils, two at the bridge of the nose, one at the top of each ear and one at the top of the head.

Culture
Guatemalan
Material
wood, paint, cotton fibre, glass, hair ? and adhesive
Made in
Guatemala
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Beaded Necklace2790/19

Beaded necklace with one square panel hanging on a long double string of green, yellow and black beads linked together at regular intervals with white bead circles. The panel is filled with a multicoloured house motif within a white ground and has a bottom trim of a double string of blue beads, below which hangs a band of white crochet-like beadwork.

Culture
Ndebele
Material
glass ? and cotton fibre
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Beaded Necklace2790/17

Beaded necklace (or head band ?) consisting of four square sections of beadwork strung together with large brown seeds and beads of different sizes and colours. Diamond, chevron and linear motifs in red, green, orange, blue and black decorate each of the white sections with crochet-like upper and lower borders. The one larger section has two brass bells hanging from the bottom.

Culture
Ndebele
Material
cotton fibre, glass ?, seed and brass metal
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Beaded Anklet2790/16

Beaded anklet with crochet-like fringe. Strings of white, red, navy blue, light blue, pink, yellow and green beads are tightly wound around a bundle of brown fibre so that the beads create a geometric pattern at the front and leave the binding and fibres visible at the back. The anklet is flexible and bends to fasten at the ends with a brown plastic button through a blue bead loop.

Culture
Ndebele
Material
glass ?, plastic and cotton fibre
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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