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ClubIh227

Heavily carved wooden club with round handle and wide, almost flat, arrowhead-shaped top. All of surface except the base of handle is intricately carved with linear geometric designs. There is a braided loop of fibre tied around the end of the handle.

Culture
Fijian
Material
wood
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Club1295/2

Long, wooden club with a slight curve at one end to a wider, flattened area; rest of club is cylindrical; cylindrical end flares out and is flat. Incised geometric decoration around cylindrical end; other end has incised geometric pattern over one rounded edge, carved grooves with circular divots in between them around the other, and a raised line down end surface with three circular divots on either side. Flattened end splits in two with one part flaring out to an edge and the other continuing along line of club to a flat end.

Culture
Fijian
Material
wood and fibre
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fly Whisk1060/33

Fly whisk made of wooden branch for a handle and with long strands of coconut fibre. Fibre cord looped around top part of handle.

Culture
Fijian
Material
wood and coconut husk fibre
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa Cloth1060/80

Rectangular tapa cloth with designs in red-brown and orange-brown on natural coloured ground. The designs consist of wide rows of squares with abstract geometric motifs in red-brown. The space between the motifs is filled with orange-brown lines. Along one back edge a silver ribbon is sewn.

Culture
Fijian
Material
mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fish Hook1060/72

Hook with amber coloured claw affixed with grey fibre to a more iridescent, flat shell; five blue beads and a piece of red felt are attached to hook at the same point. The other end of the flat shell has two protruding bumps for tying hook to a line.

Culture
Fijian
Material
shell, fibre, glass ? and claw
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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CupIh230

Plain, thin, half of a coconut shell.

Culture
Fijian
Material
coconut nutshell
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Kava Bowl553/1

Large, brown wooden bowl supported by six short legs. Two large white shells are affixed to one side of the bowl; between the two shells a long braided fibre rope is attached, the end of which is tied to a third white shell.

Culture
Fijian
Material
vesi wood, coconut husk fibre and cowrie shell
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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CupIh231

Plain, thin, half of a coconut shell.

Culture
Fijian
Material
coconut nutshell
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Pot Stopper753/2 b

Large flatted ball of tied and twisted plant fibre.

Culture
Fijian
Material
plant fibre
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ClubIh226

Cylindrical handle that flares outward at the bottom with geometric designs on the lower half consisting of the main compressed longitudinal zig zags surrounded by a horizontal row of zig zags at the upper end, separated from the bone or shell inlaid star design along the upper half. There is a bone or shell inlaid star on the bottom end of the handle. Carved melon-shaped head that has many thin protrusions all around and a large boss on the end with a bone or shell inlaid star design.

Culture
Fijian
Material
wood, bone ? and shell ?
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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