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Headdress3595/11

Antelope headdress. Wooden carving depicting an antelope-like animal with a large head, neck, horns, and small body and legs on a rectangular base. The body and legs are smooth, while the neck, head, and horns are decorated with incised lines, diamonds, and dots. In the centre of the neck, triangles are cut through the wood. Curved shapes stick out from the back of the neck, resembling fur or a mane. The front of the neck has a U-shape cut through the wood. The long horns curve backward and are incised with curved lines.

Culture
Bamana
Material
wood and stain
Made in
Mali
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headdress3595/12

Antelope headdress. Wooden carving depicting an antelope-like animal with a large head, neck, horns, and small body and legs on a rectangular base. The body and legs are smooth, while the neck, head, and horns are decorated with incised lines and shapes. In the centre of the neck, triangles are bored through the wood. Curved shapes stick out from the back of the neck, resembling fur or a mane. The front of the neck has a u-shape bored through the wood. Two metal hooks are attached to the wood on the same side; one on the animal's ear and the other on the side of the animal's body. There are two square-shaped holes bored through the base.

Culture
Bamana
Material
wood, stain and metal
Made in
Mali
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headdress3595/13

Antelope headdress. Wooden carving depicting two antelope-like animals. The smaller animal is standing on the back of the larger, which is standing on a rectangular base. The faces of the animals are decorated with incised lines and triangles, while the horns have incised curved lines. Each animal has protruding eyes, with holes on either side of the face bored through the wood.

Culture
Bamana
Material
wood and stain
Made in
Mali
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Antelope Mask3595/14

Large wooden mask depicting a bearded face with horns. The face is long with a protruding forehead, brow bone, nose, lips, and beard. Horizontal eye holes, in a roughly rectangular shape, are bored through the wood below the brow bone. U-shaped sections of wood protrude from the sides of the face, resembling ears. A semicircle protrudes from the top of the mask's head, with two long, curved horns with incised concentric lines on either side. The mask is decorated with diamond and chevron patterns, as well as diagonal lines, painted onto the wood. Five holes are bored through the wood on each side of the mask's jaw. Four holes are bored through the back of the head. Most of the back/interior of the mask is open.

Culture
Bamana
Material
wood and paint
Made in
Mali
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure3600/6

Wooden figure consisting of an intricately carved face attached to a cylindrical rod that flares into a circular concave base; cloth ties threaded through holes drilled into either side of base. Face has a long thin nose with pronounced nostrils; raised oval-shaped eyes on either side of nose, underneath semi-circular brows. Mouth is open and oval-shaped, lips done in relief; chin extends downward in a sharp point. Large curved ears, with rectangles in front of them, protrude from either side of face; ridges carved across rectangles. Raised diagonal lines are carved across cheeks. Face is painted white; diagonal lines done in blue. The figure has tall, slanted hair carved on top and back of head, with two ridges carved through it. Hair, rod and base all done in black; ties are yellow-brown.

Culture
Bamana
Material
wood, paint and fibre
Made in
Mali
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mud Cloth3530/4

Brown cloth composed of thirteen strips of hand woven textile, stitched together along the long edges; yellow-brown, black and white motifs throughout. Outer edges of cloth have a wide border consisting of diamonds inside squares. Diamonds are filled with semi-circles and there are dots along each side of the diamonds. Large rectangle in centre of mud cloth with a wide border consisting of connected triangles, forming star-like shapes, divided by plain and dotted lines. Rows of concentric diamonds frame central band of repeating triangles, diamonds, semi-circles and dot designs in middle of rectangle. Back of cloth is undecorated.

Culture
Bamana
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Mali
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Rod Puppet3420/81 a-c

Large antelope puppet head (part a) with detached horn (part b), and a separate manipulation stick (part c). The face of the animal is painted in a plaid pattern of red, white, green and yellow squares with concentric V's on the forehead - red, black, white, green and yellow, and a white heart-shaped nose. The horns are both broken, with one detached. In between the horns is a small human figure with bright pink skin, wearing a beige tunic. The figure's arms are jointed at the shoulders, and are controlled by blue string. The manipulation stick is inserted into a rectangular hole at the back of the head.

Culture
Bozo and Bamana
Material
metal, rubber, wood, fibre and paint
Made in
Segou, Mali
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Rod Puppet3420/93 a-k

Large painted wooden boat puppet (part a) with ten painted figures (parts b-k). The boat is painted black with white, red, yellow and dark green vertical bands on either end, as well as two yellow semicircles, and many white zigzag designs. There are five benches within the boat. The bow has a shorter white painted side section than the stern. The figures have different colours of painted skin (red, orange, yellow, dark brown) and each wears a fabric dress or tunic. There are 11 holes drilled down on the top of the boat for the puppets to be inserted into. Four of the puppets (parts b-c, j-k) hold either a paddle or stick, which is controlled by a green cord.

Culture
Bozo and Bamana
Material
wood, fibre and paint
Made in
Segou, Mali
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Rod Puppet3420/98

Painted, mask-style animal head on a wooden stick. The white cat-like head is painted with black and yellow spots, and the ears and mouth are painted red. The face has painted large circular eyes, and whiskers below the long carved nose. A wooden handle is inserted into the back of the head, and is unpainted. There are large metal staples spaced around the back of the head.

Culture
Bozo and Bamana
Material
wood, paint and metal
Made in
Segou, Mali
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Rod Puppet3420/95 a-d

Bird puppet with separate body (part a), head (part b) and wings (parts c-d). The body is carved from wood, with burgundy fabric covering the tail joint and extending down in a tube from below. There is a round slot at the top of the neck, which the head's manipulation stick is inserted into, and two small slots on the back to insert the wings. The bird has a large black beak with a red ridge down the top, white face with large circular orange eye, and large round crest extending out from the back of the head in red with black and yellow. The head is mounted on a long, wood manipulation stick that has a tube of burgundy fabric covering it. There is a plastic cord running down the centre that controls the beak.

Culture
Bozo and Bamana
Material
wood, fibre, paint, metal and plastic
Made in
Segou, Mali
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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