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Mud Cloth3382/3

Mud cloth composed of seven long pieces of hand woven textile, stitched together along the long edges, and dyed black with light brown designs. The cloth is rectangular, with short fringe along one short edge. The overall design is composed of zigzags, lines, repeating T-shapes, and dots.

Culture
Bamana
Material
cotton fibre, dye and mud dye
Made in
Mali
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mud Cloth3382/2

Mud cloth composed of six long pieces and two shorter lengths, of hand woven textile, stitched together along the long edges, and dyed black with off-white designs. The cloth is rectangular, with short fringe along both short edges. The overall design is composed of zigzags, lines, repeating T-shapes, and dots.

Culture
Bamana
Material
cotton fibre, dye and mud dye
Made in
Mali
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mud Cloth3382/1

Mud cloth composed of eight long pieces of hand woven textile, stitched together along the long edges, and dyed black with light brown designs. The cloth is rectangular, with short fringe along both short edges. The overall design is composed of zigzags, lines, repeating T-shapes, and dots. There are four main panels down the length, each divided by a zigzag and dot design, with a panel of dots down one side pushing the main design off-centre.

Culture
Bamana
Material
cotton fibre, dye and mud dye
Made in
Mali
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mask3326/16

Mask carved of wood. The face is angular, with the ridge down the centre of the face. One side has broken off leaving the mask off-centre. Strong shelf-like brow ridge, rectangular cutout eyes, long narrow nose, wide open mouth and strong rounded chin extending from a broad neck. Seven holes are spaced around the mask: four down the side, two across the top, and one under the nose. Mounting hardware on back - two eye hooks and a wire.

Culture
Bamana ?
Material
wood
Made in
Mali ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mask3326/2

Carved wooden animal (hyena?) mask. There are two large almond-shaped red eyes on the front of the head, with two small holes drilled through the pupils. Two dark blue-black pointed ears extend up at the top of the head. The creature has a long snout, with white teeth lining the slightly open mouth. The mouth is outlined in red and dark blue-black, with the red extending down on to the teeth at the front. A plain wooden collar extends back from the head, and has holes drilled through it. The mask is painted with dots of red, royal blue and white, and black lines horizontally across the snout.

Culture
Bamana ?
Material
wood and paint
Made in
Mali ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Stringed Musical Instrument3123/32

Stringed musical instrument. A long thin neck of wood is joined to a long, narrow, wood body which is partially wrapped in skin attached by metal nails to the instrument’s underside. Plastic strings stretch from the neck, where they are held by staggered leather thongs, to a wooden bridge near the bottom of the body, meeting several cotton strings that are used for tightening. A thin braided leather strap is connected to the bottom of the body and partway along the neck.

Culture
Bamana ? or Fulani ?
Material
wood, skin, plastic, metal and cotton fibre ?
Made in
West Africa, Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Stringed Musical Instrument3123/31

Stringed musical instrument. A long squared neck of wood, carved with several sets of diagonal lines, pierces the top of a round, hollow gourd, emerging as a short peg on the opposite side. Two long wood pins pierce the neck, each holding a metal string that stretch to make contact with a small wood bridge on the gourd, and extend to wrap around the peg. The bridge is glued to a piece of skin stretched over a large hole in the top of the gourd, attached with small wood pins. Gourd is decorated with carved lines in the shape of foliage.

Culture
Bamana ? or Fulani ?
Material
gourd fruit, wood, metal, skin and adhesive
Made in
West Africa, Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headdress3123/28

Wooden antelope headdress. Cut from a single piece of wood, the animal has a long, thin head with curved horns arching high above, a prominent neck constructed of several curved lines of wood cut into strips and blocks decorated with triangular gouges, and a rectangular lower half with square legs and a small rectangular base. Object has been stained a mottled dark brown.

Culture
Bamana
Material
wood and stain
Made in
Mali
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mask3123/24

'Comb mask'. A long, rectangular wooden face, rounded at the chin, is topped by a tall eight-sticked headdress. The nose is raised, long and thin, connected to a raised forehead piece and sided by square-cut eye holes. Two cowrie shells are attached to the comb, and a tie of cotton is strung through two holes on each side of the mask. The interior is concave.

Culture
Bamana
Material
wood, cowrie shell and cotton fibre
Made in
Mali ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mask2960/17

Carved wooden mask with a long, rectangular face and a rounded snout. The open mouth has several long sharp wooden teeth (holes in the upper and lower jaws indicate several teeth may be missing). From a concave upper lip protrudes a large rectangular nose with a small piece of rust coloured fabric tied through a hole in the tip. Large eyes are bored through the wood on either side of the nose and beneath a large bulging forehead decorated with lines and criss-crosses. On the crown of the head is a wooden outcropping, laying between two large mule-like ears standing straight up, each with many small holes on the inward side, regularly placed. The inside of the mask is hollowed out with string holes on either side.

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