Showing items held at 13 different institutions.
Showing items held at 13 different institutions.
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Gourd container (parts a-b) with a bulbous base that tapers to a funnel shaped neck (part a). Part b is a semi-spherical shaped lid with a looped leather tie on top. The entire gourd is dark red with a shallow engraved design of various geometric patterns. The central line is painted green along with alternating lines along the bottom of the base. The inside of both pieces is hollow.
Woven, palm leaf, coiled, plate consisting of traditional abstract designs in ochre, natural, and black. The centre is red with band of natural followed by a thin stripe of black. Next is a band with small alternating sections of natural and red detailed with black triangles. This decorative band is bordered by a thin stripe of black. The edge is bordered with an inner band of natural and an outer band of red.
A loom (parts a-g) an unfinished woven wool textile consisting of blue, green, yellow, orange, pink, red and white central stylized geometric designs surrounded by a repeating, multi-coloured square border all on a navy ground. The textile is attached at the top and bottom to a large, cylindrical shaped wooden stick (part a). Intertwined in the multi-coloured warp are two cylindrical shaped heddles, one covered in red and white twine (part g), the other in navy twine; a flat, rectangular batten with triangular, pointed ends (part d); one cylindrical shaped bar with indentations on the ends (part e) and two long cylindrical shaped sticks of various size (parts f and h). Separate to the loom is a hollow cylindrical shaped shed roll (part c) and the rectangular shaped brown, leather back strap (part b) that has large loops of twisted twine ties on either end.
Part of a set of 5 stencils that overall represents a diving whale. This stencil appears to be unused ad includes unfinished elements of the final design. The design is comprised of a combination of cutout and drawn elements. The mouth of the whale is visible as is one half of its eye and the top of its head. The dorsal fin is also visible but is upside down on the page and is not detailed.
Part of a set of 5 stencils representing a diving whale. The stencil depicts a dorsal fin with a head inside its lower half and a larger head that points down and away from the fin. The larger head has a front-facing eagle head in its eye. The stencil has a combination of cutout, and stenciled (using 2694/2 a-b) areas. The cutout areas have been used as a stencil with red paint. Both sides have been used.
Part of a set of 5 stencils representing a diving whale. The stencils depicts a dorsal fin with a head inside its lower half and a larger head that points down and away from the fin. The larger head has a front-facing eagle head in its eye. The stencil has a combination of cutout, painted, and drawn areas. Only one area (the upper left corner) appears to have been used as a stencil. Both sides of this area have been used.
Set of two headdress ornaments, each made of black lacquer with areas of mesh painted gold and tapering towards the base, which is composed of wire wrapped in paper. The ornaments are each decorated with an oval-shaped chinese character in mottled green and off-white and a bat figure at the rounded top depicted with raised lines.
Bentwood box and lid made of cedar wood. Nailed at front and bottom. Lid has upstanding ridge on one side. Box and lid tied with cedar bark ropes in the traditional position. Front is undecorated except for one deep vertical undercut on the left side. Sides are decorated with varying sizes of plain rectangles, and ones with carved horizontal lines. Back of box has two chevrons, one plain, one with carved horizontal lines, then a solid triangle on bottom, and carved horizontal lines above top plain chevron, all within a rectangular border.
Headdress ornament composed of an embroidered floral design in pink, green and off-white framed by an ovoid of paper that has been painted gold. A short coil and stem emerges from the narrower end of the ovoid.
Opera Hat in black silk composed of a skull cap with a bulbous, wire covered in gathered silk with two arms just below a stuffed protrusion that sits at the top of the crown. A piece of oval white plastic (?) is sewn to the front centre of the skull cap, and the bottom edge is finished with green cord. A strip of fabric is attached to the back of the skull cap and folded to form two loops and two arms that extend below the bottom of the hat. The strip is attached with a series of plastic (?) off-white beads. Lined with off-white cotton. Two off-white cotton ties are attached at the bottom back.