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Dagger1405/8

Long, brown wooden stick-like object with a thick, curved middle tapering to a sharp point. Top of object is covered with a fitted cap of woven string, attached to which are strings of beads and feathers. Main body of object is shallowly carved with curvilinear designs.

Culture
West Papuan
Material
wood, feather, fibre and resin ?
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Body MaskIe415

Tumbuan 'mask' or body costume. Conical shape made of a wooden frame and wrapped with a large piece of mulberry bark that is painted with a vertical striped pattern in dark brown, light brown and orange. Along the bottom edge is a long fringe of sennit(?) dyed red and black; the sides have two red tufts. Attached to the front is an oval shaped wooden mask covered in white clay. The face has a long forehead, protruding brow, nose and red tongue. The septum has boar tusks running through; eyes are inlaid with shell. Around the eyes and nose is black and white spotted detailing. Above the mask are black feathers, a large tuft of sennit ? dyed black and painted red and white. The top back has a fibre woven plate, an erect woven handle and a pink and blue fabric decoration with white feathers. The top sides have wooden handles painted black, red and white.

Culture
Asmat
Material
palm leaf, clay, paint, feather, wood, shell, cotton fibre, plant fibre, mulberry bark, boar tusk and dye
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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DrumIe416

Carved wood drum with an hour glass shape. The surface is detailed with a mirrored stylized design carved in relief. The rectangular carved handle has open scroll work with a cylindrical piece in the middle; attached are many grass ? tassels. Skin drum head bound with split, braided bamboo.

Culture
Asmat
Material
wood, skin, bamboo grass ?, plant fibre and pigment
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ShieldIe504

Rectangular shape shield with a carved human figure sitting on the top holding a cylindrical shaped object to his face. The shield is carved in relief with geometric design painted with black pigment. The recesses of the shapes are painted dark orange with the surrounded areas painted white. The sides of the shield are decorated with bunches of fibre strips tied through to the opposite side. There is a large carved handle and a black and orange painted diamond design at the back of the shield.

Culture
Asmat
Material
wood, fibre and pigment
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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CarvingIe454

Thin brown wood carving of two crouching human figures facing in opposite directions to each other. Each figure has one hand in the mouth and one leg. Faces have rounded oval eyes, a long thin protruding nose, a brow line, and a cap of hair on top of the head.

Culture
Asmat ?
Material
ironwood wood ?
Made in
Papua, Indonesia ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Penis Sheath1305/1

A hollow curved piece with a pointed tip. Fibre is wrapped around near the top where a string is attached at both sides.

Culture
West Papuan
Material
gourd fruit and fibre
Made in
Papua, Indonesia ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ShieldIe503

Shield carved from one piece of wood with a handle on the reverse that emerges from a raised ridge running from the bottom to the top where it protrudes above the top of the shield with a knob-like finial at the very top. The front is carved with curvilinear designs emphasized with yellow, black and white pigment, and the back is decorated with diamond designs in the same colours. Sennit fibre is knotted though holes along the sides of the shield to form a tassel on each face.

Culture
Asmat
Material
wood, sennit fibre, clay and paint
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearIe458

Long, light brown wood shaft. The head is bound onto the head and consists of a bone point. The dark brown wood head underneath the bone point is carved with four horizontal bands around the upper portion, seven pairs of barbs and nine pairs of barbs that are perpendicular to the previous seven. Shaft has a lightly carved curvi-linear design around near the upper portion. A woven fibre sleeve is at the base of the head on the shaft.

Culture
West Papuan
Material
wood, bone ? and fibre
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearIe457

Long, brown wood shaft. The head is bound onto the head and consists of a bone point. The dark black-brown wood head underneath the bone point is carved with eight barbs alternating at either side. Shaft has a knob at the end. A woven fibre sleeve is at the base of the head on the shaft.

Culture
West Papuan
Material
wood and fibre
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Body MaskIe505

Tumbuan body mask/costume. Mask is composed of a conical basketry top with woven facial features near the top, which is finished with a lip that juts upwards and outwards to form a circle as viewed from the top. The top is painted in alternating white and orange vertical bands. The bottom of the mask is finished with a long fringe attached to a ring of bent branch.

Culture
Asmat
Material
wood, bark fibre, ochre pigment ?, lime mineral ? and palm leaf
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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