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SwordC1456

Shark tooth sword. Long snout has been broken off at downward angles to taper to a smaller flat edge for attachment as a sword blade, with the shark teeth kept intact. Twenty-three pairs of shark teeth along both edges; rounded tip end.

Culture
I-Kiribati
Material
shark bone and shark tooth
Made in
Gilbert Group, Kiribati
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketC400

Woven basket. Undecorated, bulbous, herring bone weave basket with cover. Blanket stitch around rim of both basket and cover; loop handle off of one side.

Culture
I-Kiribati
Material
bark and palm leaf
Made in
Nonouti, Gilbert Group, Kiribati
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketC401 a-e

Flap top box with four smaller baskets fitted inside; two woven handle straps attached at the rim; subtle linear pattern; edge finished in blanket stitch. Inside baskets are of similar style as large basket with no handles.

Culture
I-Kiribati
Material
palm leaf and fibre
Made in
Nonouti, Gilbert Group, Kiribati
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HatC403

A basketry woven hat with a crown and a wide brim. The side of the crown, and the rim each have two horizontal bands of decoration consisting of a four parallel diagonal grasses (?) creating a zig zag-like pattern.

Culture
I-Kiribati
Material
palm leaf ? or grass ?
Made in
Nonouti, Gilbert Group, Kiribati
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SkirtC405

Small skirt with a fringe made of numerous thin strips of grass knotted onto a thin twine waistband. There are remnants of two sets of ties on each end.

Culture
I-Kiribati
Material
grass
Made in
Nonouti, Gilbert Group, Kiribati
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceC406

Dark and light brown discs strung, in alternating sections of four discs, onto fibre strand.

Culture
I-Kiribati
Material
coconut husk fibre, shell and coral
Made in
Nonouti, Gilbert Group, Kiribati
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MoneyC407

Strand of discs strung on fibre cord, alternating dark brown and white.

Culture
I-Kiribati
Material
coral, coconut nutshell and fibre
Made in
Nonouti, Gilbert Group, Kiribati
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MoneyC408

Discs are strung on a fibre cord alternating dark brown and white with a knot mid-strand. Coconut and coral smoothed and drilled for stringing.

Culture
I-Kiribati
Material
coconut nutshell, hemp fibre and coral
Made in
Nonouti, Gilbert Group, Kiribati
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SwordC410

Circular, red-brown shaft and handle that tapers to a flat point. Flat ribbed 'blade' with eighteen pairs of shark teeth along both edges. There is a cross-guard piece near the end of the handle which curves toward the 'blade' and has three shark teeth along the concave edge at either side.

Culture
I-Kiribati
Material
shark tooth, plant fibre and wood
Made in
Nukunau, Gilbert Group, Kiribati
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SwordC411

Tapered, cylindrical, brown wood shaft that has four rows of teeth with opposing sides of equal length. Shark teeth are secured by twisted fibre string. The longer sides have forty-eight teeth while the shorter sides have nineteen teeth. Bands of double black hair interwoven with woven palm leaf decorate both ends of the toothed portion. Two bands of black hair are around near the wider end and the middle within these interwoven bands at both ends.

Culture
I-Kiribati
Material
shark tooth, hair, fibre, wood and palm leaf
Made in
Nukunau, Gilbert Group, Kiribati
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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