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Plate2781/16

Small glazed white clay plate with Killerwhale design (#21) painted in black and turquoise. Made at Lambert Potteries.

Culture
Canadian
Material
clay, paint and glaze
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tile2780/15

White clay tile with a scene in relief of the interior of a room with checkered floor. A large beige vase sits on a black table and, through open doors onto the balcony, a landscape of blue water, mountains and sky can be seen. Signed by artist and stamped on reverse.

Culture
Canadian
Material
clay, paint and glaze
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Pot2780/13

Heavy, partially painted and glazed bowl with a piece of embedded cone showing in the surface. Top surface decoration is divided into an area of unglazed brown, glazed striated cream and pink, and two areas of glazed white with blue. The bottom surface is unglazed and rough.

Culture
Canadian
Material
clay and glaze
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Pot2780/8

Heavy burnished black pot with an area of beige near bottom. Thick walls twist up slightly from oval base to create body-like curves.

Culture
Canadian
Material
clay and glaze
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Jar2780/4

Igo ware with an ash glaze. Heavy dark brown jar with circular base has a few coils below a narrow neck, with two small horizontal handles, that flares out slightly to the rim. Surface is rough and glaze uneven, with some bare patches of red clay.

Culture
Canadian
Material
clay and glaze
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Pot2780/1

Large, burnished, orange clay pot in the shape of an opening bud. Pronounced vertical spines flare up from a small flat base to a high shoulder, then curve sharply into the centre of the pot as nine pointed leaves. Blackened areas resulting from the firing process cover both the shiny exterior and the dull interior surfaces. Signed and dated by artist on base.

Culture
Coast Salish and Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
clay
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headdress2777/1

Colourful headdress with a turtle on mulberry fibre, wrapped around the front of a corrugated cardboard and plastic head ring covered with white fabric and decorative elements. A long blonde hair wig and pink feathers are stitched on to a frame at the back. Around and above the nose of the turtle are bands of green and red metal beads and brown shells, from the top of which project five black fabric-covered wood sticks with white shells and ivory coloured polished coconut shell rings adhered to their lengths.

Culture
Samoan
Material
paper mulberry bark, synthetic hair, feather, cotton fibre, coconut nutshell, seed, shell, grass, metal, plastic, adhesive, synthetic fibre, wood and paper
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model House2724/1 a-c

Rectangular model village spirit house (haus tamburan) on 14 dark brown carved stilts has a basketry and clay mask with Cowrie shell eyes hanging at each end and a fringe of reddish grass along the bottom. Woven grass rope roof and walls with two small square openings in each are supported by an inner bamboo frame and floor boards. Wood house post finials carved in the shape of birds sit atop the roof peaks at each end; (b) stands upright with engraved markings on chest and light brown open wings while the darker (c) bends forward and looks down, scalloped wings with dark brown markings pointing upwards.

Culture
Iatmul
Material
bamboo grass, grass fibre, clay, cowrie shell and sisal fibre
Made in
Kaminibit, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket2695/13 a-b

Rectangular basket (part a) with lid (part b). The basket a rectangular base, slightly flared sides and rounded handles on each end. The handles are secured to the inside with leather skin ties. Simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches) with a slat foot and overcast splint rim. The basket has a continuous imbricated design of two bands zigzagging in cat-tail, red and black cherry bark. The lid has a imbricated diamond design with two bands.

Culture
Coast Salish
Material
cedar root, skin, cat-tail grass ?, cherry bark and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Neck Ring2771/1

Large, heavy iron neck ring in the shape of a coiled cedar neck ring. Thickness of coil narrows at the point where the two ends untwist to form a smooth hammered cold-work join.

Culture
Tahltan
Material
iron metal
Made in
Stikine, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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